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"Mr President, for half a century Bulgaria was under Communist rule. However, when the Berlin Wall fell it was brought under post-Communist rule. Agents of the former secret service, the Darzavna Sigurnost, continued to control the state. The West did business with them during the privatisations, which were often carried out illegally. Financial support from the West hardly reached the unemployed Bulgarians and the victimised Roma. Only the former secret agents flourished in their roles as businessmen, judges, bankers, politicians and leaders of NGOs. Has the population ever had a fair chance under post-Communist rule?
In the 2001 progress report, the rapporteur, Mr Van Orden, urged the Bulgarian authorities to provide further information on the murder of dissident writer Georgi Markov in London in 1978. It was one of the many contractual killings left unaccounted for long ago and more recently.
The report stresses the need for greater efforts for the social inclusion of Roma. I also agree with the Commission that further efforts are needed to combat all forms of intolerance, racism and xenophobia. I appeal, therefore, to all my fellow MEPs to sign Written Declaration No 19 – initiated by MEPs from five different political groups – on protection of people in Bulgaria against neo-totalitarianism. Holocaust-deniers in Bulgaria close to the former secret service do not belong in the EU. I am also grateful that the Commission has concerns about the unacceptable living conditions of the Roma. They are scapegoats, like Jews, Turks and homosexuals.
Finally, I am very pleased that last week the Bulgarian Minister of the Interior, Mr Petkov, promised the Verts/ALE delegation that all the archives of the Darzavna Sigurnost would be opened before 20 July. Only then will we know who killed Georgi Markov, who committed other crimes and who is really ruling Bulgaria today. Let us support real reformers and free Bulgaria from its past, instead of postponing its future."@en1
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