Kristian Shkvarek is one of the young representatives of the group of European Conservatives and Reformists in Bulgaria.

His comment is about the brutally beaten Macedonian Bulgarian Hristiyan in Ohrid.

Macedonian Foreign Minister Buyar Osmani strongly condemned the attack on Hristiyan Pendikov.

"This glass building behind me on the corner of Rakovska is my workplace since 2019. And more precisely in it in 2019 I opened the office of the representative office of the European Conservatives and Reformists. Next door, two floors below, the representative office is housed of the European Commission, that institution which exerted colossal pressure on our country to lift the veto towards Skopje, and which was supposed to guarantee the rights of our compatriots there.

Today I came down from my office to join the protest organized in front of him and directed at this same European Commission.

Which - to put it bluntly - lied to us.

A protest organized as a sign of sympathy with the young Macedonian Bulgarian, brutally beaten in Ohrid for not being ashamed of his origin.

Unfortunately, no other colleagues from any of the European institutions represented in the building joined us.

Although each of them could have been in the place of Christian of Ohrid.

And we, the people with some direct access to the European institutions, should be the main tool for protecting the interests of our country at the European level.

This is exactly how the employees of the European institutions of all other nationalities act.

On paper, it is stated that they work for the specific institution, "for the common European idea", but de facto they work only and only for the interest of their own country at the European level.

This is a generally accepted fact on the sidelines of all European institutions.

Tales of "common cause" in the EU are fantasy.

I have seen with my own eyes that each nation uses its personnel in the various institutions in order to advance its own, national interests.

And they manage to do it.

This, I believe, is how we, the Bulgarians in these institutions, should also think, regardless of whether we are representatives of parties in the EP like me, the Bulgarian judges in Luxembourg or the Bulgarians in the EC administration.

That is precisely why, beyond the protest actions, the Bulgarian representatives to EKR have already taken institutional actions.

Official signals have been sent to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the European Union

by MEP Angel Jambazki, including insisting that the processes of starting membership negotiations between North Macedonia and the European Union be terminated.

Whatever happens, it will continue to be completely incomprehensible to me why, of all the European nations, we are the least, the least, and the weakest in asserting our interest at the European level.

Our compatriots in these institutions seem to "assimilate" the fastest, lose any previous identity and even deliberately try to abstract themselves from their origins, in order to kill some inferiority complex.

To "fit in", to accept them "as Europeans".

None of the others do that.

Most openly European nations such as the Dutch and Germans, for example, most brazenly and openly use every possible lever and agent to protect their own state interest.

It is high time to emancipate ourselves from the thinking of a "dark, Balkan entity" somewhere on the periphery and start doing the same as them - skillfully, Machiavellian and "European" - with their tools and their practices, to "pull the rug" towards that , which is primarily beneficial for Bulgaria.

*Title is the editor's

Christian Shkvarek

PCM

fight of a Bulgarian