Romanian legal reform

With Romania's entry into the EU, the country's legal reform is under observation of the EU Commission. Should Romania depart from its reform course, it will risk losing EU funds. Ionut Popescu praises Minister of Justice Monica Macovei for her efforts toward reform. "She convinced the Europe representative that the Minister of Justice in Romania is neither protecting its party colleagues nor using the law to agitate political opponents... For the first time, former prime ministers and ministers, but also those currently serving, would be prosecuted. Two years ago it was still unthinkable to arrest a prefect or mayor. Has the economic branch also become more honest? Of course public moneys will continue to be pilfered. But no one - be it minister or legislator- dares any longer to call up a prosecutor or judge to tell him that he should mete out mild justice in a particular case if he wants to keep his job."

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