A dying kiss

[dreamville-bg.livejournal.com]

Being the cynical nation that we are, we Bulgarians have a nice saying: "Once we join a strategic alliance, they're doomed with imminent collapse". And it's true. Ironically, history has shown that whichever block of countries we've joined, soon tends to collapse (the continental block in WW1; the axis in WW2; the Soviet block)... This doesn't bode well for NATO and the EU now, does it? And neither for Schengen.

Here's what happened the other day. The elaborate technocratic lace of the Brussels dress that was being woven between UK and EU may've achieved some form, now that the two sides have reached an "agreement" - but these are hard to explain to the ordinary EU citizen. The agreement between Cameron and the remaining 27 member states now grants UK a "special status" within the EU (not that the UK didn't already have a special-snowflake status in practice, if not on paper). The idea is to appease the special snowflake Britons to please be so kind to stay with us a while more, because we love them so much, even if they hate us. Cute - in a very typically European way.

( There is a problem, though )