Holidays for Bulgarian pensioners

Because Bulgaria's state budget currently has a large surplus, the ruling socialists have come up with plans to send 5,000 pensioners on holidays for free. Journalist Martin Dimitrov comments ironically in the daily Dnevnik on how the lucky 5,000 could be selected from among 100,000 pensioners: "I will take the liberty of proposing two different approaches: one could go through the entire photographic archive of the communist and the socialist parties and select the most active participants. In my opinion participation in at least three demonstrations should be the minimum requirement. A national lottery could be held to determine the other half of the winners. But that leaves the problem of deciding which hotels are to accommodate the holidaymakers. Therefore I will make another suggestion to the government: the hotels should be owned by businessmen who are already on the blacklist for misappropriating EU funding - this would be a kind of compensation for the funding they can no longer receive."

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