nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190616-165900-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190616s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190616-165900-0 doi eng 342 23 Vassileva, Radosveta Author aut CVM Here, CVM There: The European Commission in Bulgaria’s Legal Wonderland Vassileva, Radosveta Verfassungsblog 2019-06-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 13 June 2019, Bulgaria’s Minister of Justice Danail Kirilov declared that he would resign unless the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism to which Bulgaria was subjected was lifted before the end of the Juncker Commission’s term. This statement comes in the middle of a highly controversial reform proposed by Kirilov. The reform is one of the key arguments Bulgaria intends to use to persuade the European Commission that the CVM should be terminated this year. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Cooperation and Verification Mechanism Democratic Backsliding judicial independence Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/cvm-here-cvm-there-the-european-commission-in-bulgarias-legal-wonderland/ raw object