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Some voices insist we could be more ambitious. I believe Bulgaria deserves that. It deserves that we be more ambitious for it. I would like to say a couple of words about the character of this which lies ahead of us – about the paths to the future. I will use Ms. Gavrilova’s words that democracy is an effort as a spring-board. I think we all have already learned that from practice. The word effort however somehow begs for a complement – effort at what? The question about the goal of a society’s efforts to become democratic is very important for international development, international assistance for democratic reforms, and rule of law. Very often the expectation arises that democracy has to lead to prosperity, even though many caution against making such a connection because it turns out that if you have oil, you just do not need democracy and rule of law. And still, I think that ultimately we really are talking about wealth. It seems to me that democracy is a society’s effort at meeting itself, its culture, its potential. From this point of view, I would define our future not just as reforms, not catching up and not overtaking, but simply as more efforts to exhibit and utilize our country’s potential, an encounter with all the wealth that we in short call Bulgaria. Civil society seems to me that the evident locale of such an “encounter”. In this sense, the Bulgarian civil sector is destined to be an important mediator in the process of unfolding our potential. In this context, the significance of USAID’s work with civil society organizations, which Ms. Gavrilova highlighted, is brought to light even more sharply. I would like to dwell upon several other important aspects of that work. Not just to flatter our hosts, but because I believe that the lessons USAID taught us on how to successfully carry out reforms will be important to our future endeavors. During all these years, USAID was a key investor in the development of civil society institutions: in its organizations and in the affirmation of modern forms of dialogue. By this I mean not only financing. Bulgarian NGOs were important partners for USAID and the Agency channeled much of its technical assistance through them. USAID not only invested in the civil sector but also relied on and utilized its resource. Everyone who has worked with USAID knows that it formed its policies as a result of a constant dialogue with the civil sector and used adequately its expertise and experience. There was a steady growth in the number of Bulgarian experts that the Mission worked with through the years and this contributed much to the success of its projects. After the wonderful Bulgarian that Ambassador Beyrle spoke I can say: through the years, the USAID Mission became more and more fluent in speaking Bulgarian. An important last stroke outlining the legacy USAID is leaving is something quite specific, as far as I understand, for Bulgaria. A large number of the staff of international organizations that provided technical assistance as implementers of USAID projects registered their own Bulgarian NGOs. It is important to emphasize that there are invariably members of both the Bulgarian, and the American team among the founders of these organizations. These new organizations will preserve valuable expert resources, prevent the institutional experience from scattering, and will ensure continuity of the reforms in important sectors (the judicial reform, for instance). At the same time, this fact indicates the maturity of the Bulgarian civil sector. These organizations do not exist only as long as a donor is available, these projects are not just a procurement awarded through a public auction, they are a long-term engagement. Having this example in mind, I find that an important task ahead of us is to deepen the dialogue between Bulgarian institutions and the civil sector. Civil society’s resources have to be utilized more in governing the country. The dialogue has to be based on clear and detailed legal guarantees, on transparency and accountability. The government has to adopt a purposeful strategy of providing more and more services through civil society organizations. The Bulgarian NGOs themselves have to open up to Bulgarian society more. As much as it is difficult for an organization to finance itself through donations from a poor society and business whose social responsibility reflexes are only in their embryonic form, it is a question of legitimacy and belonging. If the Bulgarian civic sector wants to be a mediator in the process of society government it has to win the support of that society by persuading it to invest means and personal efforts in its product. Lastly, when talking about reforms, about efforts to change, about international assistance and about encounters, I would like to present a more personal perspective to these almost 20 years. Many things happened – truly landmark changes. Still many more things didn’t happen. Despite all that, I haven’t been able to give an answer to myself to the question what causes change in a society, what are the new epochs made of. Thinking about that, I do not see institutions, laws, donors, projects. I see people. The first Americans I met were soldiers. A man and a woman. She was carrying an enormous teddy bear and was laughing. They were striding along Alexanderplatz in Berlin. They had come to the Eastern part, had gone shopping, and were going back across the Wall. The teddy bear must have been bigger than me at that time but what impressed me truly was seeing people who could freely cross the Wall. That monstrous wall which closed the Brandenburg gate. It is only now that I ponder over the fact that the teddy bear they were carrying was actually the symbol of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Then the Wall fell down – in 1990 – I personally tore off my own piece of it. The first American I met and got to know closely was the first volunteer attorney from the American Bar Association with whom I worked for the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiavie – CEELI. This was in 1996, I was a student, and he was often asked whether he was an American agent. And he readily and candidly admitted that was exactly what he was. Only nobody recruited him. He was just born like that – an agent of America. That was my first encounter with the magnificent spirit of volunteerism in America which I have always hoped we would cultivate more in our country too. The first Bulgarian American I met was a neighbor, a construction worker who dreamed of America and applied for the Green Card each year, until one day he told me: “America is here. We just have to do it.” And added: “Plus – they can’t have such nice tomatoes there.” The first American-Bulgarian I met is, I believe, Chris Thompson who should be somewhere in the hall. In the final reckoning, I could never find out with certainty whether it is the walls that keep us closed and whether destroying them means you can go wherever you want, whether one people can free another, whether importing foreign institutions leads to rule of law, whether democracy made anybody richer and whether money can buy justice. I only know that people can meet and leave gifts for each other. I do not mean financial grants or a Xerox machine for the office. I mean traces from their personalities. We often do not realize how extremely saturated these traces are. During these years, I met many Americans, wonderful people who believed in what they were doing and each of them somehow was able to give me something as a gift. A piece of his America. I don’t know whether peoples can give gifts but I think USAID is leaving a deep trace in us. A big chunk of America. I hope that each of the Americans we all met through these years also took something from our country. Apart from the tomatoes.     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