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| JUSTICE IN THE LIGHT OF A EUROPEAN REPORT 27/05/2008 |
| (2008-05-27) |
| Last updated: 2008-05-28 15:50 EET |
Admitted to the European Union in the latest enlargement wave on January 1st, 2007, Romania is still in purgatory. Overdue pre-accession reforms must now be completed. And most of them are related to the justice system and to the fight against corruption. Without those reforms, Bucharest risks being subject to a safeguard clause, which means Romanian court rulings will no longer be recognised in the European Union. And partners have plenty of reasons for discontent. Romania is one of the European leaders by the number of complaints filed to the European Court of Human Rights by citizens who failed to find justice in their native country.
Launched with much fanfare, probes into high-level corruption cases have proved to be just for show: no former or incumbent minister subject to investigations these past few years has been sent to court, not to mention sent behind bars. And resourceful MPs have created countless legislative obstacles to the National Anti-corruption Directorate, which they did not shy from accusing of political control and from labelling as a presidential gadget. All this was subject to an assessment made in Bucharest last week by a team of European Commission and EU Member State experts. Based on their findings, in July the Commission will release a report on the progress made by Romania's judiciary. While in Bucharest, European Commissioner for Multilingualism, Romanian Leonard Orban gave assurances that, in spite of some critical opinions expressed by national parliaments, the European Commission’s report would be objective:
“There are governmental and national parliamentary standpoints which are highly critical, and which see judicial reforms in a fairly negative light. The European Commission’s report is an independent report, it will exclusively rely on actual facts and findings, although there have been and there will be pressures, including, as you must have seen, all sorts of stories in the international media, speaking even about a prospective suspension of Romania's voting rights. They are all testing public opinion, but the European Commission’s report will be factual, strictly based on the progress made by Romania.”
Romanian Justice Minister, Catalin Predoiu, shares this moderate optimism:
“Making forecasts before experts reach a conclusion is rather delicate. But I believe we can safely state that there are areas of notable progress, just as there are areas in which things are not as good as we would like them to be. I trust the report will be objective and balanced. I have confidence in the experts’assessment.”
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