Bulgaria shows little desire to cut CO2 emissions

The only real heat was that surrounding the buzz words of the year: “climate change” and “global warming”. Bulgaria greeted them like one welcomes a pop quiz – with a show of acquiescence yet little desire.

At the December 11 and 12 European Council meeting in Brussels on the topic, Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev “tried” to convince the other countries that Bulgaria had no need of being included in the Europe-wide plan until the year 2020 to fight climate change, because Bulgaria had “already done enough and thus deserved to receive leeway on heating gas emissions because of its furiously developing economy”.