This is how Bulgarian Judicial Independence Ends…Not with a Bang but a Whimper - New Reforms Labelled as Implementation of EU Recommendations Endanger Judicial Independence in Bulgaria

This is how Bulgarian Judicial Independence Ends…Not with a Bang but a Whimper - New Reforms Labelled as Implementation of EU Recommendations Endanger Judicial Independence in Bulgaria Stoychev, Simeon Author aut Text xx# 2019 Verfassungsblog 2019-06-03 eng Bulgaria notoriously ranks at the bottom of all judicial independence and corruption indexes in the EU, even lagging far behind Member States such as Hungary and Poland. Under the guise of implementing EU recommendations and the case-law of the European of Human Rights, a reform proposal by Bulgaria’s Ministry of Justice is about to threaten Bulgaria’s judicial independence even further. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Stoychev, Simeon Democratic Backsliding judicial independence Rule of Law 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/this-is-how-bulgarian-judicial-independence-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20190603-235634-0 190603 10.17176/20190603-235634-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)