It is fuelling an already widespread public discontent with the authorities' failure to root out high-level corruption and organised crime, the main reasons for the EU's decision in July to nearly 500m euros in aid to Bulgaria and the irreversible loss of 220m euros of this amount in November.
Dodatno je motivirala ionako rasprostranjeno nezadovoljstvo neuspjehom vlade u iskorjenjivanju korupcije na visokoj razini i organiziranog kriminala, što je predstavljalo glavne razloge zbog kojih je EU u srpnju zamrznula gotovo 500 milijuna eura pomoći Bugarskoj, te nepovratnog gubitka 220 milijuna eura od tog iznosa u studenom.