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The European Parliament has officially declared that its subcommittee, not the Bulgarian chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev, started the closed-door meeting last Friday on the rule of law in Bulgaria. This was done through an official statement published on the institution’s website by the Monitoring Group for Democracy, the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights. (DRFMG).
After the meeting, which was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor Ekaterina Zaharieva, it was clear that our country has been strongly criticized for the actions of the prosecution, the way in which judicial reform is carried out, etc.
Hours later, the prosecution issued a statement claiming that the debate was started by Ivan Geshev.
“The debate was organized by the European Parliament on the proposal of the Attorney General Ivan Geshev to discuss the current challenges before the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Bulgaria in the context of increased political and media pressure.“wrote the state attorney’s office.
However, according to the statement of the European Parliament, this is not true.
“The meeting was organized on the own initiative of the DRFMG (Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group) and focused on recent events in Bulgaria in relation to democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights , in particular, the freedom of the media, the independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers “says the message.
Regarding the information released after the meeting, The EP clarified monitoring: “…We take note of the statement by the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office and other participants. All statements reflect exclusively and only your observations. These statements contain statements that are not shared by DRFMG. ”
Immediately after the unfortunate meeting, GERB MEP Emil Radev issued a statement saying that his colleagues in the EP were outraged by “the use of gallows, coffins and body sacks from the protests in Bulgaria”.
It turned out that this was not entirely true. The journalist from Euractive Georgi Gotev confirmed that the meeting discussed gallows and coffins, but the position was expressed by a Bulgarian representative and not by an MEP.
A day ago, the vice-president of the European Parliament accused the Bulgarian government of spreading false news on the occasion of the closed-door meeting in question.
Germany’s Katarina Barley, a member of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) and a participant in the debate on Bulgaria, said during an online debate: “The reaction of the government (of Bulgaria) was alarming, which published completely false information about the content (of the discussion, editor’s note). A real fake news.”
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