There is much talk about the EU as a community of destiny, but its infrastructure is still too weak to protect Europeans. After the coronavirus crisis, there will be changes to the degree of outsourcing production beyond Europe. In this context, the EU will be a very important layer of policy making to make sure that such changes will not be taken as a protectionist instrument in the hands of national governments, says Josef Janning, political scientist, in an interview to EUROPOST.

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.

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.