The dismissal of a General Prosecutor, prosecutorial wars, a war between a General Prosecutor (Ivan Geshev) and a former Prime Minister (Boyko Borissov), brutal murders…

This is not a thriller – this is Bulgaria! Moreover, this is Bulgaria under the guidance of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM), which was supposed to help it catch up with other Member States in the area of the rule of law.

Happy to share my latest post for the Verfassungsblog in which I discuss the latest troubling developments and the European Commission’s flagrant omissions in the CVM. You can read “Bulgaria’s Mafia State and the Failure of the CVM” here.