Placed at the heart of the gigantic "House of the People" built by former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian parliament is probably the most unreformed Romanian institution that will enter the EU in January. Former secret police officers, apparatchiks and pillars of the Communist Party are still doing and undoing party alliances, hindering reforms and mutilating laws beyond recognition.
True, in the past two years there was a government alliance with a slim majority that pushed f...
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