If we don't give our law enforcement and judicial authorities appropriate tools at hand to fight terrorism and serious and organised crime that is being carried out online, they go dark and there is impunity for crimes. They risk to be blind while many of the crimes are either planned or conducted online, says EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove in an interview to Europost.

Bulgaria compares favourably to other European countries in tackling coronavirus spread. We are handling the situation two to four times better than the global average. The number of infections is two times lower, while the number of deaths is four times lower as ratios per one million people. Bulgarians are a pretty disciplined nation and seem to grasp the seriousness of the situation. We have turned out to be much more disciplined than the Italians and the Spanish, who underestimated the threat.

The looming social and financial cost of the coronavirus crisis, which is going to aggravate a recession that was already on its way, will increase pressure for Brussels to rethink its priorities. Various lobbies will insist that the industries they represent are most deserving of relief. A social-minded alternative would suggest that the companies should be pressured to forego a significant chunk of their profits in the name of social stability, says political scientist Boris Popivanov in an interview to Europost.

We must take a look at ourselves, recognise our mistakes and start following the recommendations, showing extreme care for our own health and that of others, Assoc. Prof. Mihail Okoliyski says in an interview to Monitor.

Our strength is in staying united; politicians should not be concerned about ratings and elections, Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev says in an interview to Monitor.

Nowadays medicine has advanced, and hopefully we will be able to reduce to a minimum the number of victims and damages, and we will quickly find the solution, says Andrey Kovachev in an interview to Europost.

For several years now, the war in Syria is not only a civil war but a regional conflict, which will only escalate. Ceasefires are mainly used by the involved parties as a tactic to buy time to regroup in preparation for more attacks. Extremist groups take advantage of the situation and through populist strategies paint themselves as a resistance, Ruslan Trad, journalist and Middle East analyst, says in an interview to Europost.

Еnterprises in Europe and America were complaining that it was impossible to do business because of pervasive corruption, says Prof. Dr. Steve Hanke in an exclusive interview to Monitor.

Coronavirus seems to be very adaptive. It can easily produce new strains for which the human body has not developed immunity. To avoid getting sick from any type of virus infection, the human body needs to develop antibodies. The flu viruses are capable of attacking even the strongest immune systems. The Covid-19 pandemic will finally go down but no one knows when.

Accession is no longer achievable within one to two government mandates, but has become an almost generational project. So the best would be to offer the Western Balkan countries membership of the Single Market. This is ambitious, it requires implementing 60 to 80% of the acquis, but it is also very concrete and meaningful, says Alexandra Stiglmayer, General Secretary of the European Stability Initiative, in an interview to Europost.