Prison Legislation on Corruption: Romania interrupts judicial reform | tagesschau.de

Romanian Prime Minister Dancila introduced after the threats from Brussels to desert the controversial rest of the felony regulation on corruption. European Fee President Juncker welcomed the choice.

Romania desires to surrender after months of disputes with the EU on the controversial judicial reform. Prime Minister Viorica Dancila introduced that he would now not pursue the relief of the felony regulation on corruption.

A regulation was authorised by the Romanian parliament in April. The proposed modification would have decreased the prescriptive intervals for numerous crimes and the perpetrators left unpunished if that they had self-reported after a backlash inside a 12 months and had not but began an investigation. The penalties for embezzlement and abuse of workplace would have been halved if the defendants changed the harm.

Thus far, the regulation has not been in pressure as a result of conservative president Klaus Iohannis has not signed it and as a substitute despatched it to the Constitutional Court docket for assessment.

Dancila emphasizes "the European method"

The European Union has repeatedly introduced penalties for the member state, if the reform have been applied. Extra lately, Vice President Frans Timmermann has threatened to provoke an EU judicial process towards Romania.

The politicians of the EU have been pleased with the top of the reform. European Fee President Jean-Claude Juncker stated that after a gathering with Dancila in Brussels, he and Timmermann welcomed the choice.

Dancila, for its half, said by way of Twitter that Romania has at all times had "a European method" and can proceed to increase its cooperation with the European Fee.

Head of the Social Democrats sentenced to jail

Observers imagine {that a} current ruling towards Liviu Dragnea, chief of the Romanian Social Democrats, performed an important function within the choice.

Dragnea repeatedly opposed the measures taken within the struggle towards corruption in Romania. Final week he was sentenced to a few and a half years in jail for instigating the abuse of energy.