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Bulgaria PM Not to Change Ministers over Critical EC Reports
Politics | July 23, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's PM Stanishev attributed the country's continuing corruption and organized crime problems to much of its messy post-communist transition. Photo by BGNES
After the official release of the two EC monitoring reports on Bulgaria, the Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev declared he was not going to dismiss any ministers and deputy ministers over the Commission's slashing criticism for the government's failure to tackle corruption, organized crime, and EU money abuses.
"I am not going to throw any victims to the wolves... I don't intend to dismiss any ministers or deputy ministers just to please someone's expectations", Stanishev said apparently alluding to demands by the opposition that the government or certain ministers resigned.
During a special briefing in the city of Varna dedicated to the EC reports, Stanishev explained that none of the ministers in his cabinet were directly in charge of the two PHARE executive agencies had been revoked.
The PM also reminded that the directors of the two agencies, the Central PHARE Finance and Contracts Unit at the Ministry of Finance and the PHARE Executive Agency at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, had just been replaced with new people.
Stanishev said each ministry was expected to come up with an action plan on how to rectify the issues that it was in charge of. The plans will be considered during the meeting of the three-way governing coalition on Saturday and Sunday in the mountain resort of Bansko.
The Prime Minister stressed the positive feedback from the EC with respect to the setting up of the State National Security Agency DANS, the appointment of a special Deputy PM in charge of the absorption of EU funding, and the beginning of the reforms in the Interior Ministry.
Stanishev said the recommendations of the EC were present in the government's program, and gave as an example the closing down of the duty-free stores on Bulgaria's land borders, which the Commission claimed had been feeding corruption.
The Prime Minister recognized the problems Bulgaria was facing with regard to corruption and organized crime but pointed out that many of these stemmed directly from the country's messy post-communist transition.
"I am not going to throw any victims to the wolves... I don't intend to dismiss any ministers or deputy ministers just to please someone's expectations", Stanishev said apparently alluding to demands by the opposition that the government or certain ministers resigned.
During a special briefing in the city of Varna dedicated to the EC reports, Stanishev explained that none of the ministers in his cabinet were directly in charge of the two PHARE executive agencies had been revoked.
The PM also reminded that the directors of the two agencies, the Central PHARE Finance and Contracts Unit at the Ministry of Finance and the PHARE Executive Agency at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, had just been replaced with new people.
Stanishev said each ministry was expected to come up with an action plan on how to rectify the issues that it was in charge of. The plans will be considered during the meeting of the three-way governing coalition on Saturday and Sunday in the mountain resort of Bansko.
The Prime Minister stressed the positive feedback from the EC with respect to the setting up of the State National Security Agency DANS, the appointment of a special Deputy PM in charge of the absorption of EU funding, and the beginning of the reforms in the Interior Ministry.
Stanishev said the recommendations of the EC were present in the government's program, and gave as an example the closing down of the duty-free stores on Bulgaria's land borders, which the Commission claimed had been feeding corruption.
The Prime Minister recognized the problems Bulgaria was facing with regard to corruption and organized crime but pointed out that many of these stemmed directly from the country's messy post-communist transition.
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