It is more important for Brussels that we are quiet, helpful and poor than smart, active and prosperous.
Since the time when the Prime Minister was a mayor it has been very much in his style to create and solve problems himself, being always the winner and the peacemaker. In the current conflict situation, snags and tools are different. First of all, it is the government's unjustified financial policy. There is no plan to get out of the viral crisis, and money is handed out with no idea of the consequences, in some cases hysterically. This is ill-considered and interferes seriously with the investment climate. This was stated in a video interview for Studio Banker by political scientist Teodor Slavev, part of the team of the Bulgarian Institute for Legal Initiatives (BILI).
Teodor Slavev also said in the interview:
It is more important for Brussels that we are quiet and helpful, albeit poor, than smart, active and prosperous. Despite the declared requests for the rule of law while allocating EU funds, Brussels turns a blind eye to what is happening in Bulgaria. Establishment of autocratic regimes with the help of European money.
Another way to program crises or to maintain the crisis status quo and the oligarchic model is the designing of the pathways along which EU money will again be made available to economic actors, linked with the ruling body.
The next feature is the increase in external government loans. Since the beginning of this year, they have amounted to 8 billion and during quarantine, when parliament was not working, a blank cheque of 10 billion euros was voted. In the public discourse no one knows what the real state of finances in Bulgaria is. And hard times are yet to come.
It is possible that GERB will remain a second, perhaps even a third political force. It will not be a surprise if they fall further down.
Ninova's election means that if she continues with social-populist and nationalist themes and a refusal to concentrate on economic issues, the mafia and the conquest of the state, the BSP also risks shrinking.
Colleagues in the United States call the purchase of people's love an abuse of state resources for electoral purposes.
