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Bulgarian Anti-Corruption Law Vetoed by President

Bulgaria’s president has vetoed the Parliament’s anti-corruption bill a day after the country started its half-year EU presidency. Rumen Radev said in a statement that the adopted law not only does not create an...

by LibertiesEU

Bulgaria’s president has vetoed the Parliament’s anti-corruption bill a day after the country started its half-year EU presidency. Rumen Radev said in a statement that the adopted law not only does not create an adequate legal basis for tackling corruption but will even make fighting it more difficult. The Bulgarian Parliament’s bill aims to tackle high-level corruption by setting up a new anti-graft unit, but the independence of the new body is questionable since its directors would be selected by MPs.

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