Romania: Stage victory in fight against corruption

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Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).The citizens' fight against corruption in Romania continues. Hundreds of people once again took to the streets on 3 May 2017 - and achieved a stage victory: the Senate's legal committee withdrew its support for a draft law for an amnesty that would have seen people convicted of corruption released from prison. But Romanian journalists explained that the people haven't won the battle yet.

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http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

ESO: Background information: Authorities put forward referendum on how to fight corruption following continued protests in Romania http://www.europeansources.info/record/authorities-put-forward-referendum-on-how-to-fight-corruption-following-continued-protests-in-romania/

The New York Times, 04.05.17: Romania Drops Measure to Pardon Corrupt Officials https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/world/europe/romania-corruption-protests.html?_r=0

Quadriga: University of Applied Sciences: #rezist – Romania’s 2017 anti-corruption protests: Causes, development and implications, 2017 http://www.romanianprotests.info/

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