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| STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM 18/07/2008 |
| (2008-07-18) |
| Last updated: 2008-07-21 17:54 EET |
The European Commission will next week release a monitoring report on the Romanian and Bulgarian judiciary. The lagging reforms in the judicial system and ineffectiveness of anti-corruption efforts are the most important criticisms against Romania in the monitoring report to be released by the EC on July 23rd. Sources in Brussels say Romania will come under fire for persisting corruption and flaws in the justice system, but will not be subject to financial penalties at this stage. Positive aspects noted by the EU executive over the past six months are the appointment of a new justice minister, the establishment of a national anti-fraud agency,, and the annulment of a bill intended to hinder prosecutions. Brussels will not apply the safeguard clause, although Romania seems to have made little progress since the February interim report, which noted the lack of results in fighting high-level corruption, while also acknowledging the progress in the activity of the National Anti-corruption Directorate and of the Public Ministry.
The overall report will apparently be highly critical. It will state that the Romanian justice system has hardly made any progress at all, with anti-corruption boiling down to empty words. As the report will note, Parliament is to blame for the country's failure to overcome the status of a monitored state. European commissioners are to issue a last warning to Bucharest Wednesday. In Romania there are too many files inadequately put together by prosecutors, and too many trials deliberately delayed by judges, president Traian Basescu has recently stated in his turn. In his opinion, the EC report on the judiciary will “very likely” extend the monitoring process.
But European diplomatic sources also report that the EC will find differences between Romania and Bulgaria, with the EC executive expected to voice reserves as to Bulgaria's joining the Schengen and Euro zones, because of the scope of corruption. The European expert group which has drawn up the reports on the Romanian and Bulgarian judicial systems have obviously found a much better state of affairs in Bucharest than it did in Sofia. Bulgaria’s seeing some of its European pre-accession funds cut down, and facing the risk of new funding slashes over suspicions of corruption is, according to sources in Brussels, a very dangerous precedent.
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