Corruption bill vetoed in Bulgaria
 

SOFIA: Bulgaria's president on Tuesday vetoed legislation demanded by Brussels aimed at tackling rampant corruption, saying it fails to protect whistle blowers.
Bulgaria, which took over the European Union´s rotating presidency on January 1, is the poorest country in the bloc and according to watchdog Transparency International also the most corrupt.
Eleven years after joining the EU and despite being subject to a special EU monitoring system, no single high-ranking official has been jailed. In a move towards reform, parliament approved the new law in late December with a view to merging several existing agencies into a single body to fight corruption.
It also broadened the list of high-level officials whose income, property and conflict-of-interest declarations would be subject to checks by the new body. Parliamentarians however ruled out the possibility of lodging anonymous complaints against politicians, while also offering no protection from prosecution to whistleblowers.President Rumen Radev, warning of the "risk for repressive action", said the proviso went against the Council of Europe´s Civil Law Convention on Corruption protecting people who report graft.

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