In my latest piece for the Verfassungsblog, I share the lessons learned from a 5-year long journey of trying to persuade the EU Commission and the EU Parliament to comply with their obligations under the EU Treaties. Namely, the EU Commission has recently launched an infringement procedure against Bulgaria in view of its breaches of Directive 2016/343 on the presumption of innocence and on grounds I have been raising in formal complaints to EU institutions since 2018. My 5-year long disillusioning experience of raising concerns about Bulgaria’s deliberate breaches of EU law before the EU Parliament and the EU Commission may serve as a case study providing some food for thought about the value of fundamental rights in the eyes of these EU institutions, as well as their handling of reasoned citizen complaints.

You can read my full article titled ‘At a Snail’s Pace: How EU Bureaucracy Undermines Fundamental Rights’ here.