The policy brief makes an overview of the European Commission’s assessment and recommendations in regard to the Lisbon Strategy and the National Reform Programme of Bulgaria. Based on CSD analyses of Bulgaria's competitiveness and good governance the brief recommends a number of specific measures for policy improvement. The most important are:
Creating a Coordinating unit of the National Reform Programme of Bulgaria;
Focusing the National Reform Programme’s priorities on: competitiveness and innovations, improving the business environment, decreasing corruption and grey economy.
The policy brief was presented at a meeting of the Public Consultations Council to the European Affairs Committee to the National Assembly.