Gabriella Kirova: “EUROPE DOESN’T NEED MORE POWER. IT NEEDS A SOUL.”

An interview with Gabriella Rumenova Kirova about a movement that could begin in Bulgaria and reach the world

Interviewer: You say the world has lost its values. What exactly do you mean?

Gabriella Kirova:

We have built a civilisation obsessed with having more, while forgetting how to be more.

More money. More technology. More followers. More power.

But where is the conversation about character? About dignity? About compassion? About meaning?

We have taught people how to compete, but forgotten how to care. We have connected the world digitally while becoming increasingly disconnected as human beings.

I believe the greatest crisis of our century is not technological. It is spiritual.

Interviewer: You have written about these ideas in your book New World. What is the world you describe?

Gabriella Kirova:

In New World, I explore how a different future could look – a world built around new values.

A world where progress is not measured only by money, technology and material possessions, but by consciousness, wisdom, human dignity and the way we treat one another.

The book asks us to imagine what happens when humanity chooses to build a new civilisation based on values rather than fear, greed and endless consumption.

It is not simply about predicting the future.

It is about imagining the world we have the courage to create.

Interviewer: And you believe Bulgaria could play a role in changing this?

Gabriella Kirova:

Yes. And I don’t mean Bulgaria should dominate anyone.

I mean Bulgaria could inspire.

Our country carries an extraordinary spiritual and cultural heritage. Peter Deunov spoke about love, wisdom, truth and harmony long before today’s world began searching for answers to its spiritual emptiness.

And Lyudmila Zhivkova understood the enormous power of culture, spirituality and dialogue between civilisations.

There are also generations of Bulgarian thinkers, artists and spiritual people who understood something fundamental:

A civilisation cannot survive if it develops its technology faster than its consciousness.

Interviewer: You are talking about creating a movement. What would it stand for?

Gabriella Kirova:

For a return to what makes us human.

Education that builds character, not just careers.

Technology that serves humanity, rather than humanity becoming a servant of technology.

Economic success that doesn’t come at the price of our dignity.

Strong communities. Strong families. Culture. Nature. Freedom of thought. Responsibility.

And most importantly – the understanding that every transformation of the world begins with the transformation of the individual.

Interviewer: Why call it a movement to “save Europe”?

Gabriella Kirova:

Because I believe Europe is losing something deeper than its economy or political influence.

It is losing its identity.

Europe was built on philosophy, art, science, culture, human dignity and the search for truth. If we reduce Europe to markets, bureaucracy and consumption, we may preserve the structure while losing the soul.

Europe doesn’t need another ideology. Europe needs a spiritual and cultural awakening.

Interviewer: And why should this awakening begin in Bulgaria?

Gabriella Kirova:

Because sometimes the places the world overlooks are carrying the ideas the world will eventually need.

Bulgaria stands at a crossroads of civilisations. We have survived empires, political systems and enormous historical changes.

Perhaps our next contribution doesn’t need to be material.

Perhaps Bulgaria can become a place where people come together to ask a forgotten question:

What kind of human beings do we want to become?

Interviewer: Is this a political movement?

Gabriella Kirova:

Not in the traditional sense.

Politics changes governments.

I want to help change consciousness.

If we change the consciousness of people, eventually we change the societies they create, the leaders they choose and the future they build.

I don’t want a movement based on fear, anger or hatred.

I want a movement based on courage, consciousness and hope.

Interviewer: What would you say to someone who thinks this is idealistic?

Gabriella Kirova:

Every great change begins as something that sounds idealistic.

The real idealism is believing we can continue exactly as we are – consuming more, fighting more, dividing more, and somehow expecting a better future.

We cannot build a better world with the same consciousness that created its problems.

The future requires a different human being.

And perhaps that is where we should begin.

Not with changing the world.

With changing ourselves.

From Bulgaria.

For Europe.

For humanity.