US Ambassador-at-large Daniel Benjamin harshly criticized the European Union over the weekend for refusing to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Speaking at a one-day conference in London, Benjamin described Hezbollah’s legal status in the EU as “undermin[ing] security goals” pursued by the US and its allies. The debate over designating Hezbollah is likely to reemerge in the wake of an anticipated report from Bulgarian officials describing the findings of their investigation into the July 2012 Burgas, Bulgaria bombing that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. The attack has been widely linked to Hezbollah but France and Germany have resisted efforts to formally designate the Iran-backed terror group. Should Sofia formally link Hezbollah to the bombing, it may become difficult for French and German diplomats to explain why a terror attack on the sovereign soil of an EU member state that killed an EU citizen is insufficient to blacklist a group as a terror entity.