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EU with No Means to Pressure Bulgaria and Romania to Reform - Report

Politics » BULGARIA IN EU | April 17, 2008, Thursday // 00:00

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The European Union few ways of pressuring its newest member states, Bulgaria and Romania, to reform despite Brussels's frustration with their failure to combat corruption and organized crime, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

The UK paper explains that now that both states were full members of the Union, the legal instruments at Brussels's disposal to coerce them into cracking down on corruption were quite insufficient.

The Financial Times reviews the three safeguard clauses in the accession treaties of Bulgaria and Romania but points out that these could be employed only till the end of 2009, and that they do not seem to be very adequate for trying to exert pressure over issues such as organized crime and corruption.

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