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The EU’s climate package was Brussels’ other piece of political theatre this week. (Photo: European Parliament)

EUobserved

On blustering and finger-wagging

by EUobserver, Brussels,

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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