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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9823

22 January 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Barrot calls on Bulgaria to step up effort to combat corruption

Brussels, 21/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 20 January, the spokesperson for European Commission Vice-President Jacques Barrot called on Bulgaria to organise a concerted effort to “eradicate the almost endemic ills” of corruption and organised crime.

Mr Barrot, the European commissioner for justice, was taking part in a conference in Sofia called “Bulgaria in the European Union: two years later and the way forward”. Since their entry into the EU in 2007, Bulgaria and Romania...

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