Boyko Noev is a former minister of defence & NATO ambassador.
According to security expert and former defence minister Boyko Noev, the refugee flow towards Western Europe via the Balkans, is first and foremost a problem of security, and only then a humanitarian drama.
"The unchecked inflow of large groups of people professing a different religion and culture will, without doubt create integration problems for European societies. This process will undoubtedly fuel the nationalistic and xenophobic tendencies that already exist in the European countries, for example in France and the Netherlands, but we should not exclude Bulgaria from the picture, because here, there are political forces that have taken radical positions against refugees. This means that when such large groups of people come to the host countries, when these countries are not in a capacity to integrate them effectively, then nationalism will surge."
