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Editorial: Co-operation and verification

Fri, Jan 13 2012 09:00 CET byClive Leviev-Sawyer, Editor-in-Chief 1341 Views
It is to be hoped that 2012 will see Bulgaria tie up the loose end of not yet being a member of the European Union’s Schengen visa zone.

As is clear from public resistance to this by the Netherlands, much – if perhaps not all – rides on the outcome of the European Commission’s Co-operation and Verification Mechanism report. The most recent such report called for greater efforts in judicial reform and in fighting high-level corruption as well as organised crime.

The special tribunal for organised crime cases, inaugurated at the beginning of this year, with 80 cases already being sent to it and about 300 coming, provides a chance to go some way to meeting these expectations. Bulgaria cannot afford to fail; already technically ready for Schengen, it must knock down all remaining hurdles to Schengen – exposing again, if need be, that they are purely subjective.

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