BULGARIA AND ROMANIA ATTACKED OVER CORRUPTION AND ORGANISED CRIME
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEWEST members of the European Union (EU) - Bulgaria and Romania - have been roundly attacked in Brussels over failures to combat organised crime and corruption. Their inaction could cost them dear. Keith Nuthall reports.
BEING criticised by the European Commission could easily be compared to being slapped with a wet fish: unpleasant, but nothing to lose sleep about. But Brussels is raising the diplomatic temperature over the continued rude health of government corruption and organised crime in Romania and Bulgaria. It has already started ...
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