A N A LY S E DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS POLIT-BAROMETER Year 20 Issue 5 June 2020 Georgi Karasimeonov(Ed.) The scandals involving Prime Minister Borisov have been causing further damage to the country’s reputation. Recent events have shown that a number of fundamen­tal EU values such as the rule of law, freedom of speech and media, and the separa­tion of powers have been se­verely damaged in Bulgaria, and the silence of the EU is not well received by demo­cratic spheres in the country. Political upheaval is on the cards in the coming months, because the expectation is that revelations about the government will continue.