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.

The European Union cannot continue developing as an integrated community without a cohesion policy that is even more ambitious than the existing one. There is even a chance that the bloc disintegrates if the so-called “friends of cohesion” do not make an effort to convince their partners that the European funds are going where they are intended to go instead of certain people's pockets or down the drain. Undoubtedly, humanity is facing a crucial choice - either do something about the environment or accept that at the current pace of skyrocketing production and consumption we will go extinct pretty soon, political scientist Antoniy Todorov 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.

For the UK, EU membership was a pragmatic choice, not a romantic story. However, the country found itself in the middle of a project underpinned by the “ever closer union” principle, which did not fit London's idea of European integration, says Ingrid Shikova, professor in EU policies, in an interview to Europost.

Bulgaria is ready to enter the ERM-2 and respectively the Eurozone as the country have stacked a number of years of stable figures when it comes to membership criteria for the monetary union. Furthermore, Bulgaria is among the best in the EU based on indicators like public debt. The Eurozone paid a heavy price for its political benevolence and naivety, so now the political decision goes through nothing but solid macroeconomic parameters of the applying country, Petar Andronov, Chairman of the Association of Banks in Bulgaria (ABB), says.

Our motto 'A strong Europe in a world of challenges' was inspired by two ideas: that the Presidency is coming in when the EU is facing a number of important challenges - political, economic, societal, not only global but also within the EU, and that the answer to these challenges has to be strong, common, European, says H.E. Irena Andrassy, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Croatia to the EU, in an interview to Europost.