My latest article for New Eastern Europe concerns Bulgaria’s rampant failure to implement the Kolevi ECtHR judgment of 2009. This is the most pivotal judgment concerning Bulgaria’s rule of law because it identifies a core structural problem of the justice system – the centralized structure of the Prosecutor’s Office and the resulting impunity of a sitting General Prosecutor.

Sadly, the EU Commission has only exacerbated the problem with its inertia in Bulgaria’s reports under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) as well as the reports under the new Rule of Law mechanism. This, of course, raises suspicions of complicity.

You can read the full text of my article titled ‘Betraying Kolevi: Bulgaria’s pseudo-mechanism for investigating a sitting General Prosecutor’ here.

Already in 2020, I rang the alarm about Bulgaria’s refusal to implement the judgment in ‘Kolevi: Bulgaria’s 10-Year Cat-and-Mouse Game with the Council of Europe and the Venice Commission’ published by the Verfassungsblog.