Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó have reacted strongly to Bulgaria’s decision to introduce new, huge transit fees of €10.2 per MW/h of natural gas passing through the Bulgarian extension of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline to Western Europe – the so-called “Balkan Stream”.
  • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    9 months ago

    Is it really “not cooperating” if you’re just not in the block in the first place?

    • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
      25·
      9 months ago

      They’re taking a few billion in aid from the EU on their path to joining so I think cooperating is a good term here.

      Block bloc

    • sheppard@feddit.ukEnglish
      211·
      9 months ago

      Unfortunately for the EU, Hungary is part of of block.

      Regarding Serbia, if you’re applying, you should behave like a perfect member. Croatia and Estonia are notoriously known to have implemented EU directive as candidates, before the directive were even voted.

      • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, applied 15 years ago, with the current status of “in a decade, maybe”. It’s just funny how after 4 years of “no more enlargement, EU’s full, structural reform first” suddenly everyone’s pretending like Serbia was on the cusp of membership instead of basically being Turkey 2.