Romania

  • Mar 29, 2019
  • 2 min read

Referendum will test Romanians’ care for clean justice

The Romanian authorities are continuing their attempts to stop ex-prosecutor securing top EU post

Romania
  • Feb 28, 2019
  • 2 min read

EU’s Eastern states may veto Romanian fraud buster

‘Stop Kovesi’ campaign fails in EP committees but Bucharest lobbying of member states advances her French rival for EPPO

Romania
  • Feb 21, 2019
  • 2 min read

EU will react to new erosion of Romania's rule of law

The Commission is taking seriously Romania’s declining rule of law and weakening of anti-corruption procedures

Romania
  • Jan 3, 2019
  • 7 min read

EU presidency will show up Romania’s peripheral status

EU sanctions are likely if Dragnea finalises his plans to evade the law and crush judicial independence

Romania
  • Jan 2, 2019
  • 2 min read

Romanian EU presidency will be largely ceremonial

Romania will lack the capacity to use its six-month EU presidency to its advantage

Romania
  • Dec 20, 2018
  • 2 min read

Populist attack on business will please many Romanians

The stock market has fallen in anticipation of the government pushing through a 'tax on greed'

Romania
  • Nov 20, 2018
  • 2 min read

Loyalists of doubtful ability fill Romanian cabinet

Dragnea can defy metropolitan and liberal critics at home and abroad so long as he has loyal electoral base

Romania
  • Nov 15, 2018
  • 2 min read

Romania will defy EU over slipping justice standards

Favouring of Bulgaria in Commission’s CVM reports will help Romanian government whip up resistance to ‘overbearing’ EU

Romania