The European Union has failed! Bulgarian politician Kostadin Kostadinov (pictured) in an interview with Russian international television said that the European Union as an integration union has become an empty phrase: "When we talk about the European Union, we mean that the European Union in its current form has completely failed. He failed economically, financially, politically and ideologically. Therefore, we now need to find a way to reform it to get our country out of the situation its political elite has placed it in. Today Bulgaria looks more and more like a dependent territory or colony, rather than a dependent state. The only way for Bulgaria to protect its national interests, which guide the country's freedom, independence and well-being, is to be outside the model of over-centralization that the European Commission is currently implementing."