nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190603-235634-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190603s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190603-235634-0 doi eng 342 23 Stoychev, Simeon Author aut This is how Bulgarian Judicial Independence Ends…Not with a Bang but a Whimper New Reforms Labelled as Implementation of EU Recommendations Endanger Judicial Independence in Bulgaria Stoychev, Simeon Verfassungsblog 2019-06-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Bulgaria notoriously ranks at the bottom of all judicial independence and corruption indexes in the EU, even lagging far behind Member States such as Hungary and Poland. Under the guise of implementing EU recommendations and the case-law of the European of Human Rights, a reform proposal by Bulgaria’s Ministry of Justice is about to threaten Bulgaria’s judicial independence even further. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Democratic Backsliding judicial independence Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/this-is-how-bulgarian-judicial-independence-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/ raw object