It has all the feeling of one of those long-running musicals. The audience is dwindling, the actors are jaded, but the show must go on.
Yet another ‘corruption-remains’ report on Bulgaria and Romania was published this week.
The commission did some finger-wagging from a podium in Brussels. Bucharest and Sofia made more-or-less contrite noises – enough to show that the reports hadn’t gone entirely unnoticed but not enough to cover the fact that this is a purely political exercise....
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