Romanian Securitate review agency may no longer pass judgement

The Romanian goverment has issued an emergency decree allowing the agency in charge of the secret service (Securitate) files to continue its work. In the future, however, the agency will only publish the files and it will be left up to the courts to decide whether someone acted as an informer. Mircea Kivu comments: "The agency was created to tell the public which holders of and candidates for public office worked as informers for the Securitate. Now the agency no longer has a right to say who was an informer and who wasn't. ... If we have to wait for the courts to decide how extensive collaboration with the Securitate was then this is doubly absurd. Not only will wolves sit in judgement over the sheep, but the process will take just as long as the trials for corruption. Because any outcome will be put off until after the elections."

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