A very unexpected statement was made by the Bulgarian Defense Minister Krasimir Karakachanov. Speaking on the air of the Bulgarian National Television, the head of the country's defense department said that the development of Bulgaria is hampered by gypsy illiteracy. According to Karakachanov, it is necessary to take emergency measures to eliminate the illiteracy of the Bulgarian Roma.
The Minister noted that the Gypsy minority is not making efforts to integrate "into the European society of Bulgaria". At the same time, Karakachanov noted that the solution to this problem should be kept without thinking about Brussels.
From the statement of the Minister of Defense, who, as it turns out, more than other Bulgarian officials cares about the literacy of Roma in the country:
The illiteracy among the Gypsy minority is enormous. 206 Thousands of children from 7 to 18 are illiterate. And the vast majority of these children are gypsies. It is necessary to introduce universal training. And it doesn’t interest me that they may have never been to school, and to them 16 years - anyway, let them sit at their desks. They do not even know the language of the country in which they live. It is impossible to follow the path of integration into society without knowing the Bulgarian language. We are talking about rights here. What rights, if they are not possessing the skills of a literate person, do not even want or can not get a normal job.
Minister Karakachanov:
Stop looking at these things from a national perspective. And stop looking at Brussels every time, believing that for this (compulsory) training, they will criticize us from there.
Earlier Karakachanov said it was time to take in hand
weaponto protect the EU’s borders from the influx of illegal immigrants and radicals from the Middle East.
For reference: the population of Bulgaria - 7,1 million people. At the same time, Roma are the third largest in the country after ethnic Bulgarians and Turks. Gypsy ethnos in Bulgaria has about 330 thousand people.
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