"If Bulgaria is isolated from Schengen, Russian propaganda will multiply tenfold. Russian hybrid attacks will become more effective. What will be their messages? – Very elementary. Bulgarians are a second category of people abandoned by Europe," said Rosen Plevneliev

Rosen Asenov Plevneliev is the President of the Republic of Bulgaria and former Minister of Regional Affairs, President of Bulgaria (2012 - 2017), at the international conference "War is not fought only on the battlefields: Russia's Hybrid War".

The event is organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation together with the Sofia Security Forum. 

What values ​​are we talking about when Austria and the Netherlands, for internal political reasons, although since 2011 Bulgaria fulfills certain technical criteria, leave Bulgaria.

Let's put it straight.

When Bulgaria remains alone, isolated, on the periphery of the European Union (EU), the big winner is Putin.

Putin and his populists in Bulgaria, Plevneliev also said. 

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"Regarding Russia's war in Ukraine, he noted that it is unprecedented and we do not know when it will end. We do not know how far the dictator in Moscow will go, who is no different from any other dictator who denied the right of people to self-determination. For it's clear to me that Putin is the new Hitler," said Plevneliev and added:

"He is in no way ready to give freedom of self-determination to the Ukrainian people, is not ready to accept that this proud nation can have its sovereignty, future, social order. And in no case will they accept that a modern a dictator is trying to impose on them, if you will, his wish that they simply be gone."

According to Plevneliev, today's war is being fought everywhere and not only on television screens.

It is in Bulgaria, Germany, in every European country.

It affects countries around the world, he said.

Plevneliev noted that this war has its aspects and is by no means only military - it is energy, propaganda, hybrid war, cyber war, economic war. 

Plevneliev emphasized that we must protect the EU as a peace project.

However, according to him, peace is not possible when a nuclear power, a member of the UN Security Council, can blow up the rules of this same organization. 

Rosen Plevneliev