Brussels Bombs Produce War Talk in Bulgaria

Bulgarian politicians and experts have taken a hard line on the Islamist terror attacks in Brussels, which killed 34 people on Tuesday, blaming them on failed policies of multiculturalism.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov set the tone by claiming that "Europe cannot integrate [Muslim] terrorists" and criticizing German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her liberal immigration policy towards Syrian refugees.

"This is war. The enemy is killing us... The only answer is to accept the war and to smash the enemy with courage and raw power," agreed Boris Stanimirov, MP from the Reformist Bloc - one of the parties in the governing coalition - writing in a Facebook post.

The MP described the surge of terrorism as a civil war within Europe's multicultural societies, in which one culture wants to kill the others.

Angel Dzhambazki, Member of the European Parliament from Bulgaria's far-right VMRO party, also blamed Europe's "failed multiculturalism and integration" for the upsurge in Islamist terror.

"The theory that people who are completely different from Western and Eastern Europeans in terms of their culture, lifestyle, religion and traditions, who hold different values, can integrate immediately, is totally wrong," he told Nova TV on Wednesday.

"We are paying for this mistake with human lives," Dzhambazki added, urging Bulgaria to increase its border protection and boost its defence forces, because "we are at war".

Some Bulgarian analysts have echoed this militant line. Ognyan Minchev, director of the Institute for Regional and International Studies, IRMI, blamed "the impotence of today's Europe leaders and the leftist quasi-liberal ideologists who support them", saying they had pushed the pendulum to the other extreme.

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