Bulgaria ranks first in the European Union in the implementation of EU's Internal Market directives in its national legislation. Map by wikipedia.org
Bulgaria ranks first in the EU in the implementation of the Internal Market laws as it has incorporated all of them in its legislation.
The news was reported by euobserver.com, which announced that the European Commission commended the EU member states as a whole for approaching the goal of less than 1% of Internal Market laws left to be implemented.
Romania, which joined the EU together with Bulgaria on January 1, 2007, is ranked third with seven laws left to implement. Slovakia, Germany, and Latvia are second, fourth, and fifth respectively.
The Czech Republic and Portugal are doing worst under these criteria with 42 and 32 laws left to implement.
At the same time, Romania, Bulgaria, and Lithuania are the three EU states with the fewest infringement procedures, with France, Spain, and Italy having the greatest numbers of infringement cases.