The EU's three-year long monitoring of Romania's justice seems to have yielded its first results. A senator and a senior judge have been arrested on charges of accepting financial kickbacks from businessmen to rig lawsuits and trials.
The arrests followed an unprecedented protest by hundreds of judges, who demanded a clean-up and an overhaul of the new member state's legal system.
Senator Catalin Voicu, 45, a social-democrat, is facing a legal investigation on charges of mediati...
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