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Bulgaria Interior Minister Skips Seeing Judges to Iron out Conflict (Novinite.com) [Mar 11, 2010] Bulgaria?s Interior Minister Tsvetanov did not show at a meeting in which he was supposed to discuss his contradictions with the judiciary. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Interior Minister Outraged by Courts over Drug Boss Sentence (Novinite.com) [Mar 05, 2010] Bulgaria?s Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, has renewed his criticism of the country?s judiciary, this time over the case of a drug trafficker sentenced in Greece. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Top Judge: No War Between our Institutions (Novinite.com) [Feb 25, 2010] Lazar Gruev, Chair of Bulgaria?s Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) has weighed in to the ongoing war of words between the executive and judiciary powers. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Top Judge: No War Between our Institutions (Novinite.com) [Feb 25, 2010] Lazar Gruev, Chair of Bulgaria's Supreme Cassation Court, has added his voice to the battle of words between the judiciary and the country's most senior politicians. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria FinMin: Magistrates' Spending Must Rely on Conscience (Novinite.com) [Jan 04, 2010] Bulgaria?s Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, is leaving the decision about spending the judicial system State subsidy on the judiciary?s ethics. The BGN 19 M were transferred from the Finance Ministry to the Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) account on the day before the last 2009 work day in Bulgaria. [via YahooNews] More >>

Ex Interior Minister Denies Bulgaria Judiciary Scandal Involvement (Novinite.com) [Dec 08, 2009] Former Bulgaria Interior Minister and socialist Coalition for Bulgaria MP, Rumen Petkov, has stated that any connections made between him and the ?Krasio from Pleven? judiciary scandal are pure speculation. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria fights uphill battle against trafficking (Deutsche Welle) [Nov 28, 2009] Bulgaria has long struggled with corruption that has allowed human trafficking and organized crime to spread beyond its borders. But experts say the police and judiciary are starting to fight these problems. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Judicial Council Set to Re-Start Appointment Process (Novinite.com) [Nov 12, 2009] Members of Bulgaria?s Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) have unanimously cancelled their decision to suspend appointments to the judiciary after 31 magistrates were announced to have been involved in the ?Krasio? corruption scandal. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Mulls Further Judiciary Reforms (Novinite.com) [Mar 09, 2009] Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev will hold a working meeting Monday to discuss measures and policies to be taken by the government to supplement its action plan for judiciary reforms, combat against corruption and organized crime. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Magistrates Play Down Brussels Warnings (Novinite.com) [Feb 07, 2008] The body, which is in charge of the self-administration and organisation of Bulgaria's judiciary, shrugged off Brussels criticism over the lack of reforms to fight corruption and crime. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Interior Minister: We Have Efficient Judicial System (Novinite.com) [Dec 28, 2007] Bulgaria's Interior Minister Rumen Petkov declared Friday that the judiciary in the country is effective and the quality of work in the ministry has been raised. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria MPs Fail to Elect Judicial Inspectorate (Novinite.com) [Dec 19, 2007] Bulgaria's parliament failed on Wednesday to elect all ten members of the Judicial Inspectorate, a body meant to enhance the professionalism and efficiency of its judiciary, appointing only eight. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Judiciary Swamped with Lawsuits (Novinite.com) [Dec 15, 2007] Bulgaria's judiciary is swamped with lawsuits, whose number is growing by the year, which impedes the efficient work of the judges, the chairman of Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) Konstantin Penchev said on Saturday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Rookie Justice Min Seeks Swifter Reforms (Novinite.com) [Sep 20, 2007] Bulgaria's Justice Minister Miglena Tacheva, appointed to the job two months ago, has unveiled on Thursday an action plan that aims to pursue a more aggressive approach to judiciary reforms. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Gets EU "Reality Check" (Novinite.com) [Jun 27, 2007] Bulgaria's first progress report since joining the EU in January, published on Wednesday by the European Commission, did not invoke the safeguard clauses, but demanded more political commitment to implementing judiciary reforms. [via YahooNews] More >>

EC Report on Bulgaria Sets Six Benchmarks for Judiciary Reform (Novinite.com) [Jun 27, 2007] The European Commission approved on Wednesday its reform progress report on Bulgaria, outlining six concrete benchmarks in the area of judiciary reform and fight against corruption. [via YahooNews] More >>

Freedom House Gives Bulgaria Improved Marks on Democracy, Governance (Novinite.com) [Jun 14, 2007] Independent NGO Freedom House gave Bulgaria improved marks in its annual "Nations in Transit" report released on Thursday, but reiterated the need to reform the judiciary and fight corruption and organized crime. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Corruption Level is 9th Highest among 37 Countries - Report (Novinite.com) [May 25, 2007] Bulgaria scored ninth in corruption level in the judiciary and the legal systems, according to Transparency International's 2007 report, based on the data from 36 other countries. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's President: Hesitant Vote Looming over Recent Political Scandals (Novinite.com) [May 20, 2007] It is possible the scandals on the tops of the judiciary and the executive powers, that marked the development of the MEP elections campaign, to make the voters hesitant, Bulgaria's president said after he cast his ballot on Sunday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM suspends minister (Financial Times) [May 08, 2007] Sergei Stanishev, Bulgaria's prime minister, yesterday suspended Rumen Ovcharov, the economy and energy minister, saying he wanted to send "a clear signal" that the judiciary and the cabinet would not tolerate political corruption. [via YahooNews] More >>