3rd International Conference "Central Europe at The Crossroads"
Hosted by Patrimonium Sancti Adalberti
Prague, October 25-27, 2024

Bulgaria and Security Challenges in Central Europe
Viktor Kostov, Ph.D.
„Свобода за всеки“ (Freedom for All)

(The speech was delivered at the morning panel session of the conference on October 26)

Dear organizers of this conference,
Honorable guests,

In this presentation I will suggest my opinion as a human rights and pro-family lawyer, and a student of culture and the Christian faith, as to how Bulgaria is contributing, and will possibly contribute in the future, toward the goal of security, stability, and cooperation in Central Europe.

Firstly, these two concepts, security and stability, in the modern world mean law and order without sacrificing individual freedoms.

I will address the two main challenges to geopolitical security in the region. These are 1) the subversion of fundamental human rights by redefining those or flatly violating them, even over benevolent pretexts, and 2) the erosion of the sovereignty of the individual states and their peoples.

Here I will list several interconnected threats to security and stability for the Central European region.

Undermining human rights by redefining them or completely abrogating them by powerful, non-elected elites, in violation of sovereign democratic constitutions and international law.

#1. Rogue ideologues who exhibit disregard for the natural order and show hatred for God and humanity. One example is Uval Harari, a University of Jerusalem professor and spokesman of the infamous World Economic Forum. A man with a “husband” and with misanthropic ideas well favored by the legacy media and naive audiences. Harari’s ridiculous explanation of human rights nears genocidal overtones. He publicly states, basically, that regular people are “useless eaters” and that “there is no God and no human rights.” Harari explains: “If you cut a man open you will see organs, but you won’t see human rights.” This level of ludicrous reductionism and deconstruction of humanity is applauded while it surely qualifies, by their own standards, as “hate speech.” Theorists of this rank proliferate in the organizations that yield power over our states. They filter down through groups of rich and powerful do-nothings like WEF whose unconcealed goal is to save the earth while depriving individuals all over the world of liberty, property and happiness; and while assuring us that slavery is what we have always wanted.

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Speech at the Conference “The Future of Central Europe,” Prague, Oct. 13-15, 2023

Delivered on October 14, 2023
by Viktor Kostov

Honorable guests of this conference,

Dear hosts of this important event,

It is an honor and a privilege to be invited to share at this timely gathering.

Introduction

Freedom for All, or “Svoboda za vseki,” is our organization with 20 years of experience in defending human rights and debating theological issues and church and state relations. We started this work in Bulgaria to restore human freedom and dignity after the collapse of the totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe.

We believe that the realm of human rights, in relation to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, is a good approach to engage in the Great Commission. Part of fulfilling the commandment to teach the nations Christ’s teachings is to oppose the tyranny of godlessness and the hatred of our neighbor. In law and politics, the defense of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and other fundamental human rights is a system of values that reflects love for our fellow man. The protection of the right to family privacy is one of these foundational and recognized human rights.

In this presentation I will submit that the traditional family is under ideological attack. I will also propose that our duty before God to defend the rights of parents and children, as well as defending human freedom and dignity, can be unifying factors for Central Europe.

We, at Freedom for All, have taken cases and presented briefs and legal opinions before the local and Supreme Courts of Bulgaria, as well as taken cases to the European Court of Human Rights. This year we won a case against the Bulgarian government for viciously slandering evangelical Christians in the coastal city of Burgas back in 2008. The case lasted 14 years. In 2018 Bulgaria rejected the signing of the infamous Istanbul Convention whose goal is to redefine man, woman, and sexuality. This was a victory which was won in part because of our previous work against the draft of the Child Law of 2012 and similar “progressive” initiatives.

Read more: The Defense of the Traditional Family and The Future of Central European Peoples in View of The...

In September of 2023 we filed a Brief with the National Assembly of Bulgaria denouncing the propsed Declrarion against Hate Speech in Political Life. The Declaration was propsed by the leaders of the main political parties in the parliament. Seeing this document as a precursor to a more sinister attack on freedom of speech, we at Freedom for All, and 24 other Christian religious denominations and various organizations, filed the Brief asking the members of parilament to not vote the Declaration into and offically adopted document. (Here we present the text, machine translated, until proper translation becomes available.)