EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESSES FOR CRIME CLEAN-UP IN BULGARIA AS NUCLEAR BOSS IS SHOT
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SHOOTING dead of the chief executive of the company maintaining Bulgaria's Kozloduy reactors has redoubled the determination of the European Commission to see organised crime stamped out in the country. Borislav Georgiev was killed at home in Sofia, just two weeks after Commission President José Manuel Barroso called for action against Bulgarian crime, saying: "Endless investigations, delayed court cases do not amount to justice."
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THE SHOOTING dead of the chief executive of the company maintaining Bulgaria's Kozloduy reactors has redoubled the determination of the European Commission to see organised crime stamped out in the country. Borislav Georgiev was killed at home in Sofia, just two weeks after Commission President José Manuel Barroso called for action against Bulgarian crime, saying: "Endless investigations, delayed court cases do not amount to justice."
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