UK Embassy in Bulgaria: Romania is performing MUCH better

Romania is performing much better than Bulgaria, according to the British Ambassador in Sofia, Jonathan Allen. The declaration comes right after the MCV reports for both countries were presented on Wednesday. Allen believes that if this tendency persists, soon enough Bulgaria will be the only one requiring special monitoring by the European Commission, economica.net quotes.

“The report for Bulgaria is a depressing document. A couple of small steps forward and huge leaps backwards”, Allen wrote on his Twitter account.

The ambassador advises Bulgarian political leaders to stop arguing among themselves and settle on the proper ways to reform the country. Only this way, Allen argues, the problems withing the judiciary could be remedied.

At the same time, deputy prime ministers Zinaida Zlatanova and Ţvetlin Iovcev have expressed their satisfaction over the conclusions presented in the MCV report. According to them, the positive conclusions are clearly meant for the current administration, while any problems referenced in the report are clearly the responsibilities of previous governments.

“I am pleased with the report because it represents a very clear action plan which we have to follow without hesitation”, Zlatanova, also minister of Justice, said.

On behalf of the conservative Bulgarian opposition, Tomislav Doncev said that the most troubling aspect of the report are not the problems it draws attention to, which have always been there, but rather the desperation and frustration the European Commission feels in regards to the situation in Bulgaria.

Diana Kovaceva, former minister of Justice under prime-minister Boiko Borisov, went on the record saying the report this year is much more negative than the one from last year.