As of now there is no signed agreement for the transit fees from the
South Stream gas pipeline, Bulgaria's caretaker deputy PM Ekaterina
Zaharieva told the bTV national channel.
"No matter how much South Stream would cost, we don't know if it will
be profitable, as we don't know what the benefits for us will be”, she
said in a bTV talk show on Friday.
The statement of Zaharieva, who is a deputy PM in charge of regional
development and investment planning, refutes the claims of the previous
energy minister Dragomir Stoinev who was saying that Bulgaria got "the
best possible financial conditions” and Bulgaria's best interests were
"fully protected”.
According to Zaharieva, the only clear benefit from South Stream so far
was the possible diversification of gas deliveries, but only after the
reverse-flow interconnections with Greece, Turkey and Romania are
completed.