Bulgaria’s president has vetoed the Parliament’s anti-corruption
bill a day after the country started its half-year EU presidency. Rumen Radev
said in a statement that the adopted law not only does not create an adequate
legal basis for tackling corruption but will even make fighting it more difficult. The Bulgarian Parliament’s bill aims to tackle high-level corruption by setting
up a new anti-graft unit, but the independence of the new body is
questionable since its directors would be selected by MPs.