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EU is idle onlooker to Bulgarian sleaze

Corruption and institutional incompetence are making Bulgarians more and more suspicious of Bulgarian political parties, parliament, government, the judicial system and the police.

The Bulgarian presidency alone was held in high regard, but with the latest revelations that president Georgi Parvanov used to work for the Communist state security service, the reputation of this institution is likely to collapse. And the European Commission appears as an idle and occasionally grumpy onlook...

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