nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/cb1c6dfd944241bf DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231018s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/cb1c6dfd944241bf doi eng 342 23 Vassileva, Radosveta Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-7118-3949 At a Snail’s Pace - How EU Bureaucracy Undermines Fundamental Rights Vassileva, Radosveta Verfassungsblog 2023-10-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier By 1 April 2018, member states had to transpose an EU Directive on ‘the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and of the right to be present at the trial in criminal proceedings’. Bulgaria has not fully transposed it to this day, and consistently undermines it. Now, finally, the Commission has launched infringement proceecings. Preceding the announcement, the Commission rejected Rasosveta Vassileva's reasoned complaints on the same issue, as late as 2022. Her odyssey is a concerning tale on how EU institutions handle citizen alerts. CC BY-SA 4.0 Bulgaria bureaucracy EU EU Commission European Parliament fundamental rights Infringement Procedure Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/at-a-snails-pace/ raw object