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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Romania council rejects changes to anti-corruption laws

Romania council rejects changes to anti-corruption laws
By Steven Wildberger on Jun 16, 2015 08:40 am
[JURIST] Romania's Superior Magistrates' Council [official webcite] on Monday rejected 22 proposals that would have made it harder to fight top-level corruption. The proposals, developed by the governing Social Democratic Party [party website, in Romanian], would have changed the law to make it harder to arrest lawmakers for corruption-related offenses including conflict of interest [EFOR backgrounder]. Although the decision is not binding, Justice Minister Robert Cazanciuc [MFA bio] said he intends to recommend that the Romanian Parliament [official website] refuse...   +read more

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