News Romania Justice: Romania Lags in Preventing Public Corruption, Watchdog Says
BUCHAREST, Romania — A European anti-graft body says Romania has ... judicial system changes that were seen as undermining anti-corruption efforts. Romanian Justice Minister Ana Birchall said her ...
News Romania Justice: Romania Ruling Party Boss Gets 3½ Years in Prison for Graft
Romania. The High Court for Cassation and Justice has sentenced Dragnea to serve 3 and a half years in prison for intervening from 2006-2012 to keep two women on the payroll of a family welfare agency ...
News Romania Justice: Romania backs president's justice reform gamble
Romanians dealt an electoral blow to the governing Social Democratic Party (PSD) in the European elections on Sunday (26 May), as centre-right parties surged to over 50 percent of the vote. Leading ...
News Romania Justice: Romanian president asks ruling party to revise controversial justice laws
Since taking power in late 2016, the PSD has chipped away at the independence of the judiciary, prompting criticism from the EU and the largest street protests in decades in Romania ... parties that ...
News Romania Justice: Romanian leader seeks pact to scrap justice reforms and defend EU norms
Romania’s president, Klaus Iohannis, has urged its political parties to sign a “national agreement” to scrap sweeping justice reforms by a government now reeling from defeat at the ballot box, EU ...
