nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230613-231059-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230613s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230613-231059-0 doi eng 342 23 Vassileva, Radosveta Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-7118-3949 Bulgaria’s Mafia State and the Failure of the CVM Vassileva, Radosveta Verfassungsblog 2023-06-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Recent events in Bulgaria have brought the true extent of its rule of law decay to the fore. The wars between the highest-ranking prosecutors in the country, public testimonies by participants in crime syndicates implicating senior magistrates and politicians, and the brutal murders of potential witnesses against organized crime demonstrate that the line between organized crime, the judiciary, and the political apparatus is increasingly difficult to draw. In this post, I argue that the current escalation of Bulgaria’s rule of law crisis lays bare the European Commission’s continued mismanagement of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM). CC BY-SA 4.0 Bulgaria CVM European Commission rule of law backsliding rule of law crisis Rule of Law Mechanism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/bulgarias-mafia-state-and-the-failure-of-cvm/ raw object