What happened is outrageous. This is how we protest. We will return the money given to us as we believe that Europe is sending a signal through the ambassadors. We are not flooded with European money, but we decided to mark our protest in this way. We think that it is not right for us to legitimize the European institutions by using their money.
This was stated by Bird journalist Atanas Chobanov on the air of "Eurocom", after he announced that he was ending his participation in projects with European funding because of Delyan Peevski's meeting with the ambassadors of EU countries. /p>
"The explanation is hypocrisy. On the one hand, we have official policies that are to fight corruption and to have more transparency, and on the other hand, we have the real policy - a country conquered by high-ranking corrupt people", he added.
"The message is hypocritical and very shameful. There is a ferment in Brussels about this meeting, which has not been sanctioned at the highest level. Rather, it is some kind of local self-activity. In all cases, the signal is very bad," Chobanov said.
"The funding of journalistic investigations from the money of European taxpayers is miserable. 15,000 euros are given to a team of several journalists from several countries. They get less than one cleaning lady. To allocate several million finance go for 500,000 euros. Audits of how the money was spent. This is also a sign that Europe cannot react adequately against corruption," he added.