IMF publishes a Selected Issues Paper on Bulgaria. The paper published on 22 March 2019 highlights key governance challenges and corresponding reforms. These relate to the fight against corruption, the judiciary, fiscal governance including public procurement and state owned enterprises’ (SOE) governance, and anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). The paper found that despite many reforms since EU accession, public perception of weak judicial independence and widespread corruption has changed little. Based on experience-based indicators, corruption appears to have improved throughout the course of the EU accession and shortly after, but deteriorated after 2010 and remained high.