Bulgarian officials today announced that more than half a year’s worth of investigations into the July 2012 Burgas bombing yielded sufficient evidence to link two of the suspects to the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. Five Israelis and a Bulgarian died in the attack. Among the issues at stake are efforts by France and Germany to resist American prodding to formally designate Hezbollah a terror group under European Union law. Mainstream analysis, to say nothing of repeated and explicit statements from E.U. officials, had long held that it would be difficult to stop short of acknowledging that Hezbollah was a terror group for the purposes of the E.U. if it committed actual acts of terror inside the E.U. Nevertheless, vague backsliding in recent days became explicit after the Bulgarian announcement, with E.U. foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton declaring that the E.U. would require more time and study to determine if Hezbollah – a group which has killed more Americans than any other terror organization short of al Qaeda, and which has been linked to terror acts on every inhabited continent – engages in terrorism.