Just weeks before the European Commission unveils its final evaluation of Bulgaria and Romania and their readiness to join the EU next year, enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn has said the bloc expected better results from Sofia in curbing organised crime and corruption.
Speaking in Sofia on Friday (1 September), Mr Rehn suggested that the preliminary findings of the report - scheduled for 26 September - show "there has been a serious progress in several areas of the technical preparati...
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