The European Commission decision to monitor reforms progress in Bulgaria means that the country still has issues to deal with, Institute for Market Economy said.

Mediapool.bg reported that obviously European officials and politicians refrain from calling things with their real names and believed that it is important to examine the process of reforms in a long-term period.

EC’s report contained criticism on aviation safety, food safety, justice, fight against corruption and organised crime.

It is true that those spheres are problematic but they are far from being the most important ones, the analysis said.

More important measures that need to be taken include changes in education, healthcare, social security system, taxation and the way in which the state interferes in economy.

This may mean that EC sees no problems in these spheres but in fact in most of EU members the resolution of such problems is usually postponed for the future.

Main signals that EC sent to Bulgarian politicians in its report are that sanctions and safeguard clauses are not going to be imposed despite insufficient results in the monitored spheres. There is a kind of European tolerance towards the government’s success and failures.