Svetoslav Terziev
Svetoslav Terziev is a Bulgarian journalist. He is an editorial writer and chief of the international desk at Sega.
Updated: 12 January 2011
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By Svetoslav Terziev
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Elections in Bulgaria: In search of Europe
10 May 201315466 Sega Sofia -
Schengen: Bulgarians and Romanians remain in second division
19 October 201223654 Sega Sofia -
Bulgaria: A great disappointment
13 January 201138 Sega Sofia -
Roma: No end to hypocrisy from Paris and Brussels
26 August 201098 Sega Sofia
In the campaign for the legislative elections coming up on May 12, Europe is the big absentee. Unless it’s about calling for an exit from the EU – as the extreme right is – or promising that European funds will continue to pour into the coffers of the country, as the two major parties are doing. 
Job discrimination, threats over visas…. More than five years after their accession to the European Union, Bulgarians and Romanians are treated like second class citizens, complains a Sofia columnist. Apparently, no one, and in particular the leaders of these countries, is bothered by this state of affairs. 
Battling with organised crime and held back in its bid to join the Eurozone and the Schengen Area, Bulgaria has begun 2011 without a political project to mobilise its people. 
The "humanitarian" repatriation of several hundred Roma from France to Romania and Bulgaria is "cynical and demagogical", insists Bulgarian editorialist Svetoslav Terziev. And worse yet, it offers nothing toward solving the problem of their eventual integration.