Recently, comments that there is a lack of democracy in Europe have become increasingly common. Decisions are taken by the leaders of Germany and France and then they are simply announced to the other leaders. What is your comment?
These are facts and I could not have any opinion on them. Moreover, for countries like Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, for example, where there are no real politicians with real vision that is even better. They, naturally, do not protect our interests, but they create a civilized structure and a development path. I'm not sure, but I think, that it would have been better if the Bulgarian corporate policy that is associated to a greater extent with private interests rather than to the common wellbeing could not interfere in such decisions.
The possibility of Greece finding itself outside the eurozone and outside the European Union seems quite real. Do you think that Greece’s place is outside the European structures?
I have very strong sentiments for Greece and I just cannot believe what is happening. So I'm confused. If we need to think cold bloodedly and follow the line of a cold economic and social justice, what the Greeks have done for years is really outrageous and they somehow deserve sanction. On the other hand, Greece is an emblematic place in Europe. It is its cultural cradle, a part of the most important cultural canon of Europe.
No one will get away with the catastrophe of Greece. We will not remain unaffected by it. On the contrary, we are already affected. If Greece really failed, if it exited the European Union, went bankrupt as a country and became a symbol of total collapse it would only be to our disadvantage because it is a "nuclear" European country and our Balkan neighbour.
Can a parallel be drawn between the Bulgarian transition in the early 1990s and the one that some say has already begun, while others argue that it is yet to start in Greece?
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