ROMANIA AND BULGARIA STILL STRUGGLE WITH FRAUD AND ORGANISED CRIME
December 1st, 2012
BY MARK ROWE AND CARMEN PAUN
AMIDST the fanfare that greeted Romania and Bulgaria's accession to the European Union, there was little expectation that membership would eradicate corruption overnight. There were, though, reasonable grounds for anticipating tangible progress. Five years on, major corruption scrutiny bodies appear to have come to just such a conclusion: that Bulgaria at least has made substantial efforts to clean out some of the worst elements of corruption, but has plenty left to do. And as regards Romania there has been progress, but also concern ...
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