Bulgaria’s support for Nord and Turkish Streams – a solo act in Central and Eastern Europe
Bulgaria needs to stop wasting precious time pursuing absurd policies, while missing the obvious, achievable and realistic steps towards liberalization, diversification and greater competition in the gas market in Bulgaria. Aligning national interests with Gazprom invites future suboptimal choices, financial losses and strategic blunders. It also implies future losses and low occupancy rates of the transit infrastructure with sunken investments going into excess capacities for Russia-promoted East-West transit instead of market driven and EU-NATO compatible South-North direct and reverse gas flows.