Romanian Securitate council faces closure

The issue of public access to the Securitate files does not mobilise the masses, Martin Woker regrets, even though Romania risks EU sanctions in the field of justice. "Dan Voiculescu, the successful plaintiff, had been unmasked as a civilian informant of the state security system. Under Ceausescu, he had had a high-ranking position in foreign trade. Directly following the transformation, he established a media empire which ensured him and his insignificant Conservative Party decisive influence in the political realm. His critics regard him as the most repugnant of all the turncoats in the country. ... Observers in Bucharest consider the fact that he, of all people, succeeded in sabotaging the investigating agency as further evidence that the sinister characters of the old system are gradually being rehabilitated."

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