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Every year Parliament introduces a ‘set of recommendations’ in one of its own-initiative reports on EU candidate countries, whereas there is no mention of any ‘set of recommendations’ that the Bulgarian people might have for the EU.
We are once again seeing an utterly unacceptable exercise in interference. For example, Bulgaria is called upon to carry out ‘substantial structural reforms’, and is then congratulated on its ‘privatisation programme’. Naturally, if that be the right word, greater transparency is called for in the ‘processes of public procurement, tendering and contracting’, much to the delight of the large economic and financial groups in the EU.
It does not stop there, however. Bulgaria is called upon to introduce ‘measures to bring greater flexibility to the labour market’ and ‘to increase mobility of the workforce’. The country is also reminded ‘that it needs to make increased efforts in all areas of the internal market … so as to guarantee its effective functioning’. Precedence is given to ‘resolving issues of land ownership’, yet who will be keeping an eye on this?
There are other areas that I could mention, but I think these are enough to show the EU ‘at its best’."@en1
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