Has EU monitoring in Bulgaria failed?

Bulgaria is debating how much longer the EU should monitor the country. For Svetoslav Tersiev this is a pointlesss discussion because EU monitoring has done nothing to curb corruption anyway. "Bulgaria has allegedly been making progress in the battle against crime and corruption for over six months now, and the Commission acts like it's monitoring this process closely. This game could go on for another three years but it's already clear that it doesn't pose a problem to either the big criminals and corrupt officials and bosses or the state. The question of when the monitoring will come to an end - whether it's now, next year or in 2009 - is a mere formality. Brussels has robbed Bulgarians of their last hope that salvation from the mafia would come from outside the country."

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