Bulgaria’s economy is being badly hurt by European Union economic sanctions against Russia, its prime minister said on Thursday.
EU member states such as Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia, which are heavily dependent on Russian energy, have only reluctantly gone along with the sanctions, imposed over Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. The measures targeted Russia’s financial, defense and energy sectors, and Russia hit back by banning most food imports from the EU.
Boiko Borisov, who leads a minority coalition government, said he hoped the sanctions had “already played their role and relations will be soon normalized”.
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Source: Voice of America
