| Author (Person) | Buckley, Neil |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 8.8.12 |
| Publication Date | 08/08/2012 |
| Content Type | News |
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Article reported that Romania’s constitutional court complained in August 2012 of pressure including death threats against some of its judges, in a second appeal to European bodies for protection amid a power struggle between the country’s government and president. Gianni Buquicchio, the Venice Commission president, a senior official of the Council of Europe, the continent’s top human rights body, described the pressure on the Bucharest court as 'shocking'. The political turmoil had paralysed policy-making in Romania and raised international concerns over the rule of law in the European Union’s seventh largest country by population. The International Monetary Fund warned that the fund was concerned about the economic fall-out from the power struggle. |
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| Countries / Regions | Romania |
