Foreign Policy: Bulgaria is among the countries threatened

Organization Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy magazine in Washington published the fifth annual „Index of failed States“. Bulgaria indicators have deteriorated, it was a group of endangered countries.
The authors of the Index of failed States „used 12 social, economic, political and military criteria, to rank 177 countries according to their stability. They measure their vulnerability to poor management or the deterioration of society, as well as internal conflicts accompanied by violence. Of 177 countries studied the first 60 are considered at risk of failure.
Bulgaria is at 128th position and is not among the countries in critical condition, but the threats in the third group – of five possible. This group is the largest in the index. It is located in the „warning“ zone, and it included 92 countries. Among them are problematic Eastern countries such as Albania, Ukraine, Macedonia, Bosnia and Russia. For a more accurate idea of the situation in Bulgaria, its neighbors in the index are Mongolia, the Bahamas and Croatia.
As in most analytical reports lately Bulgaria – and often Romania – still fall within the groups of countries in which they are the only EU member states. Almost all other EU member states are ranked better. A new index, even in countries like Panama, Bahrain and Montenegro is ranked better than Bulgaria and Romania – among the more stable, more democratic and less corrupt countries. Last year Bulgaria first move was to the stable states, she has returned again in danger. Are deteriorating most of the indicators which measure the „quality“ of the state.
Corruption is undoubtedly one of the most important reasons. Bulgaria presents worst performance as a criminal or delegitimizirane of the country to escape chronic human capital, progressive decline of social services, uneven economic development, demographic pressure from the decreasing population.
Foreign policy in the magazine publication of the index is accompanied by the export to the fore warnings Bulgaria (corruption) and Venezuela (cocaine). According to the text, Bulgaria has no desire to fight corruption and carry out reforms. The focus is on corruption of high state level, poor tackling and her little persecution in court. The magazine, which refers to the EU report says also that Bulgaria is at risk and indicators „in the interference of external political actors, in particular – from falling under Russian influence: Bulgaria, the poorest member of the EU , likely to fall under Russian political and economic influence, if contacts between Brussels and Sofia not to become more effective, „says Foreign policy.
The group of those who are almost to the breakdown, this year there are 40 countries, they are in critical condition 20. Lead in this group were Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, followed by Chad, Congo, Iraq and Afghanistan. The authors of the index think that last year the economic crisis and many natural disasters are further shake the weakest government systems, causing a new wave of failed, failure and risk states. The overall geopolitical impact of this is highly destabilizing, with consequences for the world, says Foreign Policy. The last group in the index is the most stable countries, which this year is only 13. The most stable country, Norway, is 177th.

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