EC supports Bulgarian cabinet reshuffle

29/04/2008

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The government's press office announced on Monday (April 28th) that European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso expressed support for the government reshuffle in a phone conversation with Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev late last week. Barroso applauded in particular the appointment of a new deputy prime minister without portfolio who will oversee EU fund absorption. The two officials also discussed future reforms in the interior ministry, rocked recently by a corruption scandal. (Trud, Actualno, BGNES - 29/04/08; Xinhua, BTV, Sofia news agency - 28/04/08)