On Friday 15 September, having consulting the Member States before the summer and receiving their green light, the Commission announced the official closure of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) for Bulgaria and Romania, which had applied to these two countries since 2007 and their accession to the EU. It has adopted two repeal decisions to this effect.
The aim was to check their progress in the areas of judicial reform and the fight against corruption, as well as organised...