Rules Must Be Obeyed,

especially EU ones,

in Serbia there is a pregnant cow, due to give birth in 3 weeks that has been sentenced to death, for crossing the border between Serbia and Bulgaria, she was one of a herd that was chased by wolves, but instead of sticking with the herd on her side of the border she strayed into Serbia, the cow’s owner, Ivan Haralampiev, and his sons relentlessly looked for her for two weeks, notifying border patrol, the local police and even the mayors of neighboring villages about her disappearance, then, one day, Ivan received news that Penka had been located in the village of Bosilegrad, in Serbia, where it was being taken care of by the locals. The relieved owner went to retrieve his cow, but got some really bad news when trying to cross the border back into Bulgaria, despite the fact that a Serbian vet had checked Penka’s health and cleared the animal for release, border authorities notified Haralampiev that, according to European Union legislation, the cow was going to have to be put down for entering Bulgaria from a non-EU country without proper import papers, they eventually let the man bring the cow back into the country with the stipulation that it would be put to death in a matter of days, She had left the borders of the EU’ and cannot be imported back into the European Union,” Ivan Haralampiev told Bulgarian television BNT TV.

 “A vet comes and orders it to be immediately culled! It is not for us to decide. We are only implementing rules that come from Brussels,” vet expert Lyubomir Lyubomirov told Bulgarian reporters, we must follow those rules from our masters in Brussels, shame about common sense or feelings of compassion, but there it is, rules are rules and must be obeyed, I can imagine what the vet will say after killing the pregnant animal, 'I was only following orders!' so that's alright then.