What is the ideological identification of The Greens party?
Ah, yes, there is this really dumb idea that green parties are left. This is complete rubbish, the greens are environmentalists, yes, but other than that they are more like Christian-Democrats. We are a party of small and medium-sized businesses, of professionals, and of independent people, of the highly-educated. One thing is for sure, we are not a party of big business, and we will never be one. How do you think you will do in the coming elections? We will do better than our opponents expect. It is a mistake to underestimate us. We are fighting to get representatives in the European Parliament in order to do work that we have been doing so far with Members of the European Parliament from other countries not from Bulgaria. A MEP has a huge power. Nobody should think the European Commission is ideal. It is a bureaucratic structure. Just the other week we tabled a harsh complaint about the work of a whole department of the Commission, the one responsible for handling NGO petitions in en
