The European Commission last week said Romanian media have made a “step forward,” but leading journalists disagree.
Media freedom is not something which Brussels normally looks at in its so-called Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM), which tends to focus on judicial reforms and the fight against corruption.
But, given that judges and prosecutors in high-level cases, as well as their families, have faced co-ordinated press attacks, not to mention death threats, the issu...
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