Bulgaria still has no progress on improving the effectiveness of investigation and a robust track-record of prosecution and final convictions in high-level cases of corruption including through the institutional reform of the Anti-Corruption Commission and specialized judicial authorities.
This is stated in the European Commission's 2023 annual rule of law report, pulished today, BNR's correspondent in Brussels Angelina Piskova reports. The report notes Bulgaria's significant progress in the introduction of a mechanism for effective accountability and criminal responsibility of the prosecutor general and the introduction of judicial control over the prosecution's refusal to initiate criminal proceedings, as well as the improved national coordination mechanism for the rule of law, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said at today's government meeting.
The European Commission is taking steps to definitively end the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism for Bulgaria and Romania, confirmed EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova.
Around 45% of the country's eligible young people voted in the European Parliament elections on 9 June . The data comes from the Youth Participation in Democratic Life project, in partnership with the Centre for Human Resources Development and the..
The National Revenue Agency and the Customs Agency have launched a joint campaign to prevent and combat gambling and drug addiction, the NRA has announced. The efforts of the two tax authorities to target young people in the joint initiative are..
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev will hold a meeting with members of the parliamentary group "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" (PP-DB), the press service of the president announced. The conversation will be at Dondukov 2 at 4:00 p.m., on July..
Seven fires are burning in forest areas in the districts of Plovdiv, Haskovo, Kyustendil and Yambol, the Executive Forests Agency said. In..
Caretaker Premier Dimitar Glavchev and the Director of the General Directorate Fire Safety and Civil Protection, Chief Commissioner Alexander Dzhartov,..
Bulgarian politicians and institutions have condemned the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. "We are deeply shocked by the horrific attack on..
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