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Monthly Archive May, 2006

Wall Street Journal Europe: Gunned Down in Sofia

May 15, 2006

Last month, a European Commission investigator just back from Bulgaria complained that law-enforcement officials there showed a–please excuse his French–”kiss-my-a- attitude” toward crime fighting. The authorities slacked in catching mobsters and human traffickers because “they believed they would get into the EU anyway,” Klaus Jansen told reporters. The next day, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn spoke […]