Bulgaria/Romania: Serb compensation for oil spill

Bulgaria and Romania plan to seek compensation from neighboring Serbia for an oil spill that has polluted large swaths of the Danube River in both countries, officials said yesterday. “There is one basic principle in environmental protection: The one who pollutes pays,” Bulgaria’s Environment and Waters Minister Dzhevdet Chakarov told reporters in Sofia. Romania’s Environment Minister Sulfina Barbu had already said on Wednesday that she would demand “financial compensation” from Belgrade.