A newly released report from a European Commission justice expert warns that Romania's struggle against corruption may slump to its 2003 level. By Paul Ciocoiu for Southeast European Times in Bucharest – 18/07/08 The corruption case against former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase has lacked progress, the EC adviser's report says. [Getty Images] Romania's war on corruption is regressing on all fronts, a report by Belgian prosecutor Willem de Pauw, a noted European Commission (EC) adviser on fighting corruption, says. The report, which was written in November 2007 but came to light just this month, warns "if the Romanian anti-corruption effort keeps evaporating at the present pace, in an estimated six months' time, Romania will be back where it was in 2003." The report, cited by The Economist, is just the latest criticism of...
[read full story]
Your Web Site
