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Нямам думи просто, и тва публикувано във Financial Times...
Organised crime clouds Bulgaria's EU accession
By George Parker in Brussels
Published: April 26 2006 03:00 | Last updated: April 26 2006 03:00
Financial Times
Bulgaria's bid to join the European Union next year has been strongly criticised by two experts sent by Brussels to assess whether the Balkan country is really cracking down on organised crime and corruption.
Klaus Jansen, a German investigator, said yesterday the country's efforts to tackle organised crime were "a total mess", and criminal bosses and people traffickers were going unpunished.
Meanwhile Susette Schuster, a German judge, said in a separate report to the European Commission that there was "open nepotism" in the appointment of judges, and that judicial reforms were "chaotic".
The two reports painta gloomy picture, at odds with some official statements made in Brussels and other EU capitals to prepare public opinion for Bulgaria's likely accession on January 1 2007.
Although Olli Rehn, EU enlargement commissioner, has warned Bulgaria it must urgently increase the pace of judicial reform, his most senior civil servant, Michael Leigh, yesterday told Bloomberg the country had made "enormous progress". That view was recently echoed by Charles Clarke, Britain's home secretary.
Mr Rehn will face tough questions on Bulgaria in the European parliament today. Critics of the fast pace of EU enlargement, led by France, are likely to cite the Bulgarian case next month when foreign ministers discuss putting the brakes on future expansion of the club.
Mr Jansen yesterday told the Financial Times he feared sensitive European police information shared with Sofia by authorities could "end up in the hands of organised crime".
His attempts to uncover the truth about the crime crackdown were often frustrated.
"They believed they would get into the EU anyway, and I encountered a 'kiss my ass' attitude," he said. "Whenever I tried to go into details they said disclosure was against the national interest."
Mr Jansen said the European Union made a serious mistake in December 2004 when it guaranteed that Bulgaria could join the club in 2007, or 2008 at the latest if it failed to meet reform targets.
"There is no positive pressure that you can put on them," he said. "There was negligence by the European Commission and heads of government in taking that decision."
Romania, which also hopes to join the Union next year, is deemed by Brussels to have shown much greater commitment than Bulgaria in tackling serious crime.
Mr Jansen said Bulgarian police were failing to make full use of the legal changes implemented under pressure from Brussels to prosecute crime bosses of corrupt politicians.
The Bulgarian authorities, he said, showed little interest in tackling human trafficking. "Woman are being traded in German whorehouses, but they say it's not a problem. They say the Bulgarian women were prostitutes anyway."
His critical report is a detailed picture of law and order in a country in which there have been 60 to 70 high-profile contract killings in broad daylight in Sofia in recent years, according to the Commission.
Although aides say Mr Rehn could still recommend in his final report on May 16 that Bulgaria be punished for its slipshod approach and be made to wait until 2008 to join, some in Brussels believe the move would be counter-productive.
Such a move would also have to be approved unanimously by the 25 member states, a highly unlikely scenario given that countries such as Britain and Poland want Bulgaria and Romania to join on schedule next year.
Rumen Petkov, Bulgaria's interior minister, yesterday defended the Socialist-led coalition government's track record on combating high-level corruption and organised crime.
"We've made serious progress in fighting trafficking of women and drugs, having recently cracked seven organised crime groups involved with these activities," he told the FT.
Meglena Kuneva, the Bulgarian EU affairs minister, said yesterday it would be a mistake to expect "miracle results" before the Commission's report is finalised on May 16.
"We don't underrate any of the signals we get from Brussels, but the peer reviews are just one set of sources the Commission will consider," she told the FT.
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