nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181122-225503-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 181116s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20181122-225503-0 doi eng 342 23 Vassileva, Radosveta Author aut Sweet Like Sugar, Bitter Like a Lemon: Bulgaria’s CVM Report Vassileva, Radosveta Verfassungsblog 2018-11-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 13 November 2018, the Commission published the latest reports on Bulgaria and Romania under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism. Bulgaria’s report is full of praise. Not surprisingly, the Bulgarian government was overjoyed. The civil society, on the other hand, was clearly upset. Why? The short answer is that the picture painted by the CVM report does not correspond to reality and only pours water to Bulgaria’s autocratic mill. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Cooperation an Verification Mechanism Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/sweet-like-sugar-bitter-like-a-lemon-bulgarias-cvm-report/ raw object