/ world today news/ “The governing parties directly pursue foreign interests in Bulgarian politics and do not care about Bulgarian ones”, the MEP believes
Sofia, 18 October 2023 – “In Israel there is a sense of statehood and national belonging that is beyond all differences. Especially in case of external aggression. In our country, unfortunately, mass psychology is for individual rescue. The majority of Bulgarians, including the Bulgarian parties, have lost the concept of national interest. Some deny the concept altogether, as is the case with the currently ruling parties. They directly pursue foreign interests in Bulgarian politics and ignore Bulgarian ones. In this sense, an external crisis would be devastating for Bulgaria.”
Ivo Hristov, a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament and head of the president’s office Rumen Radev in the period 2017-2019, shared this in the program “Before All” on the air of BNR.
Asked to comment on Prime Minister Dyankov’s words that the Presidency refuses dialogue and this could be harmful, Hristov asked: “Dialogue with whom?” And for what? All decisions of the so-called “assembly” (the exact definition is “coalition of war”) are made in the dark and made public after the fact. Lately, the Prime Minister has not announced them.
With whom should the president dialogue? With the shadow prime minister – Mr. Delyan Peevski? With the current prime minister who is an extra?”
According to the MEP, democracy and freedom of speech are in retreat everywhere.
“In Bulgaria, everything seems lost in this respect. A concept like “non-coalition” is the apogee of Bulgarian political correctness. In their servile effort, the media creates new words, adopts new concepts thrown at them only to cover up the disgrace of a coalition. Around the world, political correctness has completely blocked the ability of the media to speak any indecent truths. War will crack this political correctness in all directions as the conversation becomes raw and raw. This will be very painful,” said Hristov on BNR.
The MEP also commented on the European Act on Freedom of the Media:
“There are also good intentions in it, there are also some good decisions. For example, it will be more difficult to remove posts on social networks, and not as it happens now – through a system of denunciations, at the subjective judgment of administrators. At the same time, however, this act also creates new bodies. A new authority means a new instance of control over information. Such a new authority can always be abused. We have always claimed that Europe is a territory of free speech, and now we want to make it even freer by creating new instances? I rather see a problem here.”
According to Ivo Hristov, this problem will not be overcome through the introduced mechanisms, and the only option is for it to happen spontaneously.
“Political correctness has managed to entangle political and public debate in recent years to such an extent that it has banned the concepts needed to articulate some of the issues. In the European Union, it is not accepted to speak of a “problem” but of a “challenge”. This is just one illustration of political correctness, which has covered absolutely the entire political reality. It creates a convenient background for the rise of radical parties that propose bad solutions, but state obvious things that others keep silent about due to political correctness. This brings them points,” he added.
Hristov also commented on the decision of the director of the Frankfurt Book Fair to cancel the awarding of the Palestinian author Adania Shibli “because of the war in Israel”:
“Germany carries guilt over the Holocaust. This partly explains what happened. Germany firmly and unconditionally supports Israel in this conflict. Equating the terrorist acts of Hamas and the work of Adania Shibli is, of course, inappropriate and adds another small injustice to the whole monstrous tragedy of war.”
According to Hristov, the organizers of the fair in Frankfurt were in a delicate situation
Shibli’s award-winning novel tells the story of the rape and murder of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers in 1949. And the current war began with a terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel and the wanton killing of many innocent Israelis. There was a risk that the literary award would be used politically and harnessed to foment war.
The cancellation of the award is self-explanatory. In this case, politics kills literature, but, unfortunately, such are the times. Good literature, in any case, survives bad news, even great tragedies like the present one.”
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