BULGARIAN PROTESTORS FORCE OUT GOVERNMENT TAINTED WITH CORRUPTION
July 1st, 2013
the fanfare that greeted Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union (EU), there was little expectation that membership would eradicate corruption overnight. Six years on, major corruption scrutiny bodies appear to have come to a predictable conclusion: that Bulgaria has made substantial efforts to clean out some of the worst elements of corruption, but there is plenty left to do.Progress appeared to come in March, when Bulgaria's former agriculture minister Miroslav Naidenov became the first minister to be charged with corruption linked to the discredited ...
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