Petko Kovachev: We will be left with the greenest and unfulfilled recovery plan

A report by "Green Laws" analyzes the progress of the Recovery and Sustainability Plan related to environmental policies and reports a year without progress. We will be left with the greenest and unfulfilled plan. This was stated to the Bulgarian National Radio by the author of the report, Petko Kovachev.

The progress is minimal. For a whole year, Bulgaria failed to fulfill several commitments in order to unblock the second payment, he pointed out.

"The second payment is still hanging. It will probably hang for another half a year. (…) If Brussels had also published the negative assessments, we would have seen what the Bulgarian side has not finished and has literally lied that it has finished."

"Out of 62, according to the EC, 53 have been implemented, 9 remain. Of these 9, the Bulgarian side considered 3 as unimplemented in its public statements. However, it suddenly turned out that the notorious roadmap for climate neutrality was also not voted on. Because of it and the territorial plans for a just transition, that infamous midnight meeting took place, in which cables were broken. Bulgarian MPs kicked this money out of the budget."

If we were in regular implementation of the PPA, we should now be on the sixth payment, and not talking about the second, reminded Petko Kovachev.

Politiians and the administration together dislike the climate issue and do everything possible to formalize some changes, but nothing happens, he commented. According to him, there is an "absolute boycott" at the legislative level.

In Bulgaria, as in other countries with greater climate skepticism, there is an expectation of a revision of the Green Deal, but the EC and the EP, even in their new conservative format, will rather try to push for the reindustrialization of the EU while complying with the basic requirements of the Green Deal, expressed Petko Kovachev.

The constant elections every few months are a problem. The parliament is engaged in political propaganda, and the official cabinets do not feel long-term bound to anything, he noted.

 In connection with the liberalization of the electricity market for household consumers, Kovachev said that in our country at the moment "there continue to be deals that manipulate stock prices based on inside information".