EU Fears for Streets and Neighbourhoods
Posted by maria dimitrova 21-04-2006
It will be a long and difficult adjustment; older people, like my father, won’t be able to cope.
We’ll lose our Bulgarian identity, we’ll be like everybody else.
Well-off foreigners will push Bulgarians out of real estate in the centre of town.
Bulgarians will become second-class people who work for foreign investors.
I am afraid of the unknown, I have seen no information how the EU will affect my life.
The Nuclear Power Plant in Kozlodui will shut down and the town will die out.
We will be unprepared to live alongside immigrants from the East who will want to live in Bulgaria.
There will be greater social stratification, some parts of town will become ghettos.
The old houses in our neighbourhood will be pulled down and replaced by giant new glass-and-steel buildings.
There will be greater alienation between people because of job competition.
Prices will go up, salaries won’t.
We will be unprepared to take advantage of the opportunities offered to us.
There will be greater segregation between Roma and Bulgarian people; Roma people will be pushed out of the cities.
