“Bulgaria can get out of the exception for Lukoil to use Russian oil until the end of 2024, without changing fuel prices,” Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov has announced.
He recalled that fuel prices in Bulgaria depended on the regional market.
“We cannot control prices as they are. If someone claims that someone is incompetent, then all governments are incompetent according to this logic,” commented Denkov.
Russian oil can be used in Bulgaria until the end of 2024, but GERB, “We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria” and DPS proposed before the vacation of the MPs that the derogation be revoked.
According to Denkov, Bulgaria can exit the derogation without changing fuel prices.
“The price on the market – it is as it is in the region, but if drastic changes are made that are thoughtless, and such were proposed in the National Assembly, quite dark scenarios can be realized,” the prime minister also pointed out.
Any attempts to build the “Belene” NPP do not meet the necessary economic justification to attract investors, the Prime Minister has also said. In response to a question, he explained that there was no point in keeping the equipment, as there were no investors.
“This equipment, instead of continuing to stand there without investors who are ready to realize it, does not make any sense. The aggressor will be under sanctions from the European Union for many years, so we have no way to work with Russia, and since it’s about equipment that costs over a billion, it’s actually extremely good that a buyer has appeared,” Denkov added. (Novinite/Business World Magazine)
