nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/f8ab8d794882e79f DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240730s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/f8ab8d794882e79f doi eng 342 23 Vassileva, Radosveta Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-7118-3949 Bulgaria’s Constitutional Drama and the EU Commission’s Rose-Colored Glasses Vassileva, Radosveta Verfassungsblog 2024-07-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 26 July 2024, Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court declared a significant part of constitutional amendments enacted in December 2023 unconstitutional. These amendments were part of a rushed constitutional reform which was supposed to address persistent rule of law challenges in the country, such as the excessive powers of the Prosecutor’s Office and the politicization of the Supreme Judicial Council. The drama in Bulgaria raises concerns about why the EU Commission recognizes half-baked, ill-written constitutional reforms as progress without analysis of their substantive merit in context. CC BY-SA 4.0 Bulgarien Rule of Law prosecution (DE-588)4008866-2 gnd Bulgarien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/bulgarias-constitutional-drama-and-the-eu-commissions-rose-colored-glasses/ raw object