And end to Romania's confrontation with secret service crimes?

Romania's National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) is on its deathbed. The constitutional court decided yesterday that the law that has regulated the council's work over the past eight years is partly unconstitutional. Ioana Lupea observes: "People's access to their own past and that of their rulers is temporarily closed. This court decision invalidates evidence already produced about cooperation with the political police of the Securitate secret service. The public will never know who else could have been unmasked, and those involved will be released from all responsibility. ... In one day, Romania has lost 18 years. Now it depends on those forces who call themselves anti-communist – that is, the president and government – to turn this catastrophe into an opportunity and overcome political rivalries."

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