The European Commission is set to say Bulgaria and Romania may join the EU in January - but the draft monitoring report, seen by EUobserver, threatens safeguards unless they take immediate action on judicial and administrative reform.
The draft report, due to be published on Tuesday (26 September), says that while the two countries have "reached a high degree of alignment" with EU needs, the commission still has a "number of areas of continuing concern and also areas where the commissi...
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