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EU alarmed over Bulgaria organized crime
13/05/06
The M & V news site reports that Bulgaria`s failure to tackle organized crime reportedly alarms the European Union but shouldn`t keep the former communist state from joining the bloc in 2007.
'Brussels prepares to embrace a land of greed, killing and corruption,' London`s Times said Friday, adding that Brussels was worried but not enough to stop Bulgaria`s entry to the EU.
Only seven months before Bulgaria is to join the EU, the power of organized crime in the Balkan country begins to alarm the Brussels officials, The Times said.
A study by the Center for the Study of Democracy, an anti-corruption watchdog funded by Western governments, said that in Bulgaria 'organized crime and the related corruption are among the most serious obstacles to the establishment of the rule of law and a competitive market economy.'
Boyko Todorov, research director at the center, said, 'There are a couple of oligarchs who have purchased half the lawmakers in the national assembly. Sometimes contract killing is the easy option.'
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
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