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BULGARIA receives an overall "Moderate" rating in the 2006 Global Integrity Index. The Index assesses national anti-corruption policies and practices in countries around the world. For a printer-friendly .PDF version of this report click here.
This peer-reviewed country report includes:
Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for all 290 Integrity Indicators.
Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.
Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.
Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.
Global Integrity country reports are generated by an in-country team comprising a lead journalist (who prepares the Reporter's Notebook), a lead researcher (who initially scores the Integrity Indicators), and three to five peer reviewers. Global Integrity staff in Washington coordinate the input from all team members and are responsible for final content. For a full description of our methodology and research process please click here.
Reporter's Notebook
"I'd better be a vegetarian!" The thought crosses my mind as I start working on the shady serial trade deal, which this time concerns the illegal import of 75 tons of beef, kept at the Bulgarian border on its way from Greece. I'm thinking "vegetarian" because I read a report that said meat can cause cancer, but even more so because this particular meat, coming from far-away Ireland, is 20 years old! The standard in the European Union and in Bulgaria specifies that meat is fit for human consumption no more than two years after it has been produced.
Although the 75 tons of beef had been kept at the border since February 2006, a previous load of 50 tons, imported by the same company, entered the country in December 2005 and was distributed on the market during Christmastime.
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