Bulgaria makes corruption pledge

The annual reports in 2010 on Bulgaria and Romania's efforts to deliver judicial reform and tackle corruption paint a different picture in the two countries. While Bulgaria has embraced reform efforts and achieved important results Romania has lost momentum with the report showing important shortcomings in its efforts to achieve progress.

In both countries, the leadership of the judiciary need to take more responsibility for the benefit of reform. To guide this process, the reports include a series of concrete recommendations to be implemented by the two countries over the next year.

European Commission: Press Release: IP/10/982: Bulgaria and Romania: Mixed progress on judicial reform and fighting corruption http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/982&format=PDF&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Secretariat General: Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification for Bulgaria and Romania: Assessing ongoing progress by Bulgaria and Roma http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/secretariat_general/cvm/index_en.htm

EurActiv, 20.7.10: Bulgaria, Romania rapped for public procurement fraud http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/bulgaria-romania-rapped-public-procurement-fraud-news-496525

PressEurop, 26.7.10: Corruption - a European problem http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/301461-corruption-european-problem

PressEurop, 21.7.10: Romania in the dock, still http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/299011-romania-dock-still

ESO: Background information: Scrapped anti-corruption body too effective http://www.europeansources.info/record/scrapped-anti-corruption-body-too-effective/

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