site.btaThink-tank Deplores Bulgaria's "Counter-corruption Ice Age"

Assuming that the whole process started from endemic corruption, that is, corruption within certain areas of political, social, economic and cultural life, and then went through a situation of state capture, in which mechanisms of power were consolidated within political (or quasi-political) elites, at present we are at the level of strategic corruption, the Bulgarian Institute for Legal Initiatives says in an analysis.