"The findings of Bulgarian citizens and our European and Euro-atlantic partners that corruption determines the public image of Bulgaria, hinders our active integration, the development of investments and our prosperity, gives us a reason to join efforts", says the document. According to the agreement, BAS will carry out an audit of the state of the country to find the shortest and most effective route to overcoming the negative corruption mechanisms accumulated during the transition to democracy. BAS has institutes devoted to Economics and Law which have the potential for in-depth analysis and a review of laws, regulators, institutions and informal norms in Bulgaria and they can offer a new judicial framework. The Center for Prevention and Counteraction expressed readiness to work on specific rules that will allow collaboration with BAS.
Two things.
Corruption is very easy to solve on paper; we've been solving corruption on paper for the EU for a decade now so I'm not clear what this agreement's contribution will be to a landscape where everyone is determined to stem corruption... in theory.
Also, if BAS had the capacity to figure out what got us in this mess, why did they have to wait 20 years?
Oh, why am I such a Grinch? Look at the happy faces in the picture.
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