Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has defended the mechanism applied on Bulgaria and Romania's judicial system and anti-corruption efforts.

He has insisted that the EU monitoring should be used a comprehensive reform of "the alpha and the omega" of the judiciary.

A Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) has been established to measure the progress of the two countries, which joined the EU in 2007, as a prerequisite to their accession. Recently, Bulgarian MEPs and some from other countries have called into question the efficiency of CVM reports, issued every year since the mid-2000s.

"In itself it is efficient and this is why I support it so much, this is why I am also convinced that, within the term in office of [the current European Commission college], some two-and-a-half years more, we will do it," Borisov has told the Bulgarian National Radio.

In his words, judicial and anti-corruption reforms currently prepared are aimed at preventing a crime, rather than allowing and solving it afterwards.

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