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13 March 2016Last updated at 01:10
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Bulgaria PM Borisov seeks to halt security turmoil
By Nick ThorpeBBC Central Europe correspondent
Prime Minister Boiko Borisov wants anti-corruption work handled by the government not security services
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"Bulgaria's performance [on tackling corruption] has been rather disappointing, compared with what the Romanians are doing," he told the BBC.
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Boiko Borisov's Gerb party won elections on a platform of promising stability
The original aim in 2008 had been to combine a mandate to investigate organised crime with counter-terrorism.
"We're trying to get free market supply-side economic ideas on the table and inside their heads," Kudlow recently told CNN.
Though attended by some of New York's elite, these gatherings are not fundraisers. Organizers have instead described them as opportunities to discuss policy with potential 2016 candidates, with a particular focus on economic policy.
The dinner at the swanky Four Seasons restaurant will be funded by supermarket tycoon and former New York City mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, and co-hosted by CNBC host Larry Kudlow and other economists that formed the group Committee to Unleash American Prosperity.
A Kasich spokesman could not be reached for comment.
The Committee to Unleash American Prosperity has organized events for at least two other potential White House candidates in recent months, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani touched off a firestorm at the dinner featuring Walker when he delivered remarks questioning President Barack Obama's love for America.
"The appointment of Rumyana Bachvarova is a signal that the government wants calm, and a move away from all these tricks of the old dogs in the security sector," said Ognian Shentov, head of the Centre for the Study of Democracy in Sofia.
Kasich is speculated as a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, and his recent and upcoming travels, including his visit to New York City later this month, signal that he's weighing his options and putting out feelers to potential donors.
The junior partner in the Bulgarian government, the Reformist Bloc, has proposed that Bulgaria set up an independent national anti-corruption directorate, along the lines of Romania's model.
來源：Bbc 更新時間：2016-03-13 12:14:38 分類：News
Considered one of the EU's most corrupt countries, Bulgaria's judicial system was placed under the Commission's special supervision when it joined the EU in 2007.
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The idea is to leave it freer to deal with counter-terrorism work, says Daniel Smilov of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia.
New York (CNN)Ohio Gov. John Kasich will mingle with New York elites at a dinner in Manhattan on March 25, organizers tell CNN.
Bulgaria PM Borisov seeks to halt security turmoil
Bulgaria PM Borisov seeks to halt security turmoil
Organizers said they are in the process of nailing down a date to host former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Kudlow said he was approached by Kasich, Bush as well as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz about about wanting to attend the dinner, previously held at the 21 Club.
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Both countries have been blighted by corruption. But, in recent months, dozens of former top officials in Romania have been imprisoned or fined.
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Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (DANS) was only set up seven years ago, when two other intelligence services were merged.
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Prime Minister Boiko Borisov heads a fragile coalition of his Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (Gerb), which won parliamentary elections last October, and the Reformist Bloc, which depends for a majority on the right-wing Patriotic Front and the leftist Alternative for Bulgarian Revival.
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Bulgaria's parliament has approved the appointment of a new interior minister, Rumyana Bachvarova, after a week of drama in which five top officials have resigned or been replaced in the secret services and interior ministry.
Its annual report in January called for a "further change in political culture and a real sense that these issues are at the top of the agenda".
A major challenge facing the government in Sofia is a continuing wave of illegal migrants, especially from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Africa, across the border from Turkey.
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The political turmoil at the heart of government has hit a country which was warned in a European Commission report earlier this year that much more had to be done to fight organised crime and corruption.
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But a series of wire-tapping scandals and controversial appointments undermined its reputation and Boiko Borisov has twice tried to return its anti-corruption work to the interior ministry: first in 2009, and again now.
"All the candidates seem to want to come to our dinners, which is great. That's what we'd hoped," he said.
The tensions at the top of Bulgaria's coalition government are, according to analysts, more about the speed of change than differences in policy.
Prime Minister Boiko Borisov wants anti-corruption work handled by the government not security services
Boiko Borisov's Gerb party won elections on a platform of promising stability
