Bulgaria and Romania under attack

"Despite the shortcomings in judicial reforms and the battle against corruption, Brussels lacked the nerve to impose the sanctions that had been foreseen for such cases," Doris Kraus comments critically. "The EU's justification is that it's too early to call Romania and Bulgaria to account. But the accession of the two states came too early, too. The safeguard clauses that provided for punitive measures such as the suspension of judicial cooperation were intended to compensate for the lack of readiness for EU membership. Brussels' decision not to employ these instruments will trigger the anger of certain EU member states... But worst of all is that Brussels is giving the EU a further shove in the direction of complete loss of credibility. Its behaviour shows once more that nothing is fixed at the EU level, and everything is open to weak compromises."

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