Press Release: Bulgaria and Romania: Mixed progress on judicial reform and fighting corruption

The annual reports in 2010 on Bulgaria and Romania's efforts to deliver judicial reform and tackle corruption paint a different picture in the two countries.

While Bulgaria has embraced reform efforts and achieved important results Romania has lost momentum with the report showing important shortcomings in its efforts to achieve progress. In both countries, the leadership of the judiciary need to take more responsibility for the benefit of reform.

To guide this process, the reports include a series of concrete recommendations to be implemented by the two countries over the next year.

• Primary Source

European Commission: Memo/10/347: Report on Progress under the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism in Romania http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/347&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Memo/10/346: Report on Progress under the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism in Bulgaria http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/346&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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