Vera Jourova

The monitoring of Bulgaria under the EU's Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) could only be dropped after the country showed sustainable results of judicial reform and increased public trust in the judiciary, EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova has said.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov expressed Bulgaria's support for the establishment of European public prosecutor's office.

Borisov said this during a meeting with European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Vera Jourova, who is on a official visit to Sofia on Friday.

EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova, will visit Bulgaria on Friday to discuss priorities in the area of justice reform, consumer policy, gender equality and Roma inclusion.

Jourova will meet Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the ministers of justice(Ekaterina Zaharieva), labour (Ivaylo Kalfin) and education (Meglena Kuneva), the European Commission said in a statement on Thursday.

The European Commission proposed on Tuesday to make it easier to share criminal records of non-EU citizens in the EU as part of efforts to boost cooperation between national authorities in the fight against terrorism and other forms of serious cross-border crime.

The European Commission hosts on Monday the first high-level conference on the criminal justice response to radicalisation.

The conference brings together Justice Ministers of EU member states, MEPs, government officials, Eurojust and frontline practitioners including national prosecutors and prison directors, the Commission said in a statement.

On the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labor on Friday, June 12, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, Neven Mimica, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Christos Stylianides, Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Marianne Thyssen, Commissioner for Emplo

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Tuesday said that Romania has the support of the European Commission and the European Parliament concerning the accession to the Schengen area, however it still has to persuade "one or two member states" which "still have reserves" in this regard.

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Romania and Bulgaria should be treated like all the other 26 member states of the European Union as regards the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) on the Judiciary, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Tuesday in Strasbourg.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Tuesday pays a working visit to Strasbourg for a series of meetings with European high officials, informs a Government press release remitted to AGERPRES.

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BRUSSELS - The ministry will step up the cooperation with relevant EU services so as to speed up preparations for opening negotiation chapters, Serbia's Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Thursday during his visit to Brussels.

"We will strengthen the cooperation and upgrade it," Selakovic said after meeting EU Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourova.