Border taxes BG-RO...

... are not going away, if this article is right. It doesn't get very clear which exactly of all taxes being paid at the Romanian border are going to stay (most probably all of them!?) but the advise of the former Bulgarian minister of European Integration and currently the representative of Bulgaria in the European Commission - Meglena Kuneva - is of the opinion that the municipality of Rousse should sue the municipality of Giurgiu at the court in Luxembourg. It seems strange to me that these taxes are actually levied by the municipality of Giurgiu, as municipality representatives have resisted pressure to lower or dismantle those taxes in the past with the justification that they are imposed by various national Romanian ministries (this applies for sure to the bridge tax ("taxa pod")). Central and local authorities in Romania are tossing the ball to one another, each one denying responsibility for the imposition of the taxes, but the other interesting question in the case is "who benefits from them", because there seems to be a small group of people who bear the benefits of the border taxes at the expense of the majority of the citizens of the towns and villages in the border areas .