National Survey Finds Out That the Administrative Capacity of State Administration Declines

The reasons for this decline of the administrative capacity lie in the multiple crises that have accompanied the country in the past 2022 - foreign policy related to the war in Ukraine, domestic policy related to the inability to run a regular government with consistent priorities and the lack of a National Assembly and hence the delay in the adoption of important laws for the country, the energy crisis, high inflation in 2022 and the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19. Another group of reasons can be found in the slowdown of the modernization processes of the public administration. The Strategy for the Modernization of the State Administration 2003-2006 has already been out of force as well as the more recent Strategy for the Development of the State Administration 2013-2020. An updated version of the Strategy for e-Government Development in the Republic of Bulgaria 2019-2025 has been developed which foresees the preparation of sectoral strategies for e-government development in 23 areas but only the Justice Sector, the Customs Agency and the National Social Security Institute have such strategies.