At a meeting in Paris, the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe proposed closing the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria and following the developments in the country with regard to the rule of law, democracy..
Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet is proposing draft amendments to the Public Procurement Act which aim to end in-house procurement procedures and introduce sanctions for its violation, caretaker Ministe of Finance Rositsa Velkova anounced. Caretaker..
The caretaker cabinet has approved a bill, drafted by the Ministry of Justice, on countering high-level corruption. At a briefing at the Council of Ministers, Justice Minister in the caretaker government Krum Zarkov announced that a total of..
The Ministry of Justice has prepared all the bills needed under the Recovery Plan aimed at implementing reforms. On October 20, the deadline for public discussion on the Anti-Corruption Law expires, after which a debate in the..
The European Commission is to present on September 23 the first reports on the rule of law in each member state , European Commission’s Vice President Věra Jourová announced, quoted by the correspondent of the Bulgarian National Radio in Brussels..
The annual monitoring report of the Anti-Corruption Fund for 2019 has been released, analyzing key investigations from recent years. “The conclusions in the report demonstrate the inadequacy of the fight against high-level corruption,” said..
President Rumen Radev has called for the creation of a single body to fight high-level corruption. This is, in his words, one of the prerequisites for a genuine judicial reform in Bulgaria. Radev says that the judicial reform concept and the..
