Last Friday (12 January), just as Boyko Borisov’s government was hosting the European Commission in Sofia’s communist-era palace of culture to launch Bulgaria’s presidency of the EU Council, domestic politics cast a shadow over the country’s efforts to shake off its image of a dysfunctional post-Soviet state. In a 146 to 80 vote, MPs overruled president Rumen Radev’s veto of a new anti-corruption bill, after a debate in which they traded accusations of who was sabotaging the country’s fight against corruption.
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