Dear TRS,
I've recently read that Bulgaria, an EU state, has been protesting due to the inevitable circumstances of poverty.
A quote from the source states:
"At the end of February a father of five in the southern village of Radnewo said he was driven to self-immolation by unemployment and poverty. In March, an unemployed blacksmith threw gasoline over himself outside the presidential palace in the capital of Sofia. Security guards extinguished the flames and he survived."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/man-dies-in-sixth-bulgarian-self-immolation-in-less-than-a-month-a-890444.html
Furthermore a short youtube video of a Bulgarian news reporter also defends this articles claim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEcOrOrzfd8
My question to TSR is simple. As Bulgaria is an EU state, it should get the same benefits as any other EU state (practicably) - How desperate do you believe the situation is in Bulgaria, do you believe, due to these conditions that they should have been allowed to join the EU in the first place, and finally as Bulgaria is in actual fact part of the EU, what do you think the EU parliament, where most of the laws and regulations are made, could do to cease this what seems to me an extreme form of protest and despair.
I appreciate this is a tough topic to answer, and my apologies to anybody from Bulgaria who may feel upset realising this dreadful news.
You're replies would be invaluable.
Thanks.