Today's Quote

Bulgarian PM Borisov (right) in a verbal exchange with archaeologist Aneta Bakamska (middle) with Regional Devt Minister Pavlova looking on (left). Photo by BGNES

Borisov: "You've done whatever you've done – you now pick your tiles, and get out of here before June... If if hadn't been for the highway, you wouldn't have discovered anything."

Bakamska: "Mr. Prime Minister, after all, this here used to be a necropolis, not a barn!" retorted Bakamska.

Borisov: "Why aren't you working on it then?" asked the Prime Minister.

Bakamska: "Because it is frozen, it is winter, and it's cold," replied the archaeologist.

Borisov: "Well, then I will bring you air-heaters – to make you and your tiles warm, and, if necessary, Lili Pavlova (i.e. Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova – editor's note) will keep an umbrella over your heads but you have to be done by the end of June. We are 50 years behind."

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov scolding archaeologist Aneta Bakamska who is in charge of the digs at newly found Ancient Thracian sites along the route of the future Struma Highway. Borisov and his Cabinet have been blaming the archaeologists for delaying the construction.

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