Post by Kassandros on Sept 12, 2009 3:29:14 GMT -5
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Freedom of movement: Greek cows accused of grazing Bulgarian crops
Fri, Sep 11 2009 17:17 CET byAlex Bivol 393 Views 8 Comments 1 of 1
Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria is under attack by a new wave of nomads – Greek cows are making incursions dozens of kilometres across the border, grazing on crops in the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said on September 11.
Local authorities in the Kirkovo municipality have gone as far as to prepare a protest note to the European Commission on the issue, BNT said.
In the village of Shoumnatitsa, farmers have taken to removing identification tags from cows to prove that the animals were indeed registered in Greece. "We want both our people and experts to have proof that these are Greek cows," BNT quoted Emil Kyosev, the village's mayor, as saying.
After Bulgaria joined the European Union in January 2007, all border demarcation and barbed wire has been removed, so the animals meet no resistance passing through the sparsely populated areas in the foothills of the Rhodopes.
Farmer Mehmen Ankov said: "They grazed my beans and my watermelons. There's nothing left. They even trampled my tobacco."
Complaints filed with Bulgarian and Greek authorities have yielded no results so far, BNT said.
"How is it that these Greek farmers are getting very large subsidies for their animals and they take no care of them, so that for weeks and months they have no idea where their animals are," the mayor of Kirkovo municipality, Shoukran Idriz, was quoted as saying.
;D ;D I liked that last sentence.. It sounds funny. ;D
Imagine the investigation...
"Where is your cow?".. "I dont know.. I have months to see her"..
Freedom of movement: Greek cows accused of grazing Bulgarian crops
Fri, Sep 11 2009 17:17 CET byAlex Bivol 393 Views 8 Comments 1 of 1
Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria is under attack by a new wave of nomads – Greek cows are making incursions dozens of kilometres across the border, grazing on crops in the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said on September 11.
Local authorities in the Kirkovo municipality have gone as far as to prepare a protest note to the European Commission on the issue, BNT said.
In the village of Shoumnatitsa, farmers have taken to removing identification tags from cows to prove that the animals were indeed registered in Greece. "We want both our people and experts to have proof that these are Greek cows," BNT quoted Emil Kyosev, the village's mayor, as saying.
After Bulgaria joined the European Union in January 2007, all border demarcation and barbed wire has been removed, so the animals meet no resistance passing through the sparsely populated areas in the foothills of the Rhodopes.
Farmer Mehmen Ankov said: "They grazed my beans and my watermelons. There's nothing left. They even trampled my tobacco."
Complaints filed with Bulgarian and Greek authorities have yielded no results so far, BNT said.
"How is it that these Greek farmers are getting very large subsidies for their animals and they take no care of them, so that for weeks and months they have no idea where their animals are," the mayor of Kirkovo municipality, Shoukran Idriz, was quoted as saying.
;D ;D I liked that last sentence.. It sounds funny. ;D
Imagine the investigation...
"Where is your cow?".. "I dont know.. I have months to see her"..