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Comments on EC report under Cooperation and Verification Mechanism

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The European Commission has objectively acknowledged "significant progress on the recommendations from the January 2017 report," as well as "additional positive changes," "determination to advance the reform" and the accelerated pace of action. This is stated in a position of the Prosecutor's Office on the EC report on the progress of Bulgaria under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism.

Indicative of acknowledged progress is the lack of new recommendations and the belief that implementation of existing recommendations was possible "in the near future" in case of "good cooperation between institutions," the prosecution added.

MEP Emil Radev expressed confidence that the mechanism would be stopped by the end of 2018 and replaced by pan-European monitoring of the rule of law. GERB's assessment of the report is positive, said the chairman of the party's parliamentary group Tsvetan Tsvetanov. A firm position that monitoring of this country should be dropped was expressed by the deputy chair of the parliamentary group of the United Patriots, Iskren Veselinov.

According to opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, the current report is a failure for the ruling party, as there has not been a single recommendation fulfilled since January.

The DPS party identified the conclusions in the EC report as "showing objective failure" and stated that there were positive trends in some areas, but that was not enough to make real progress.



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