WP – Another step in the erosion of Central Europe’s democracy

„The cause of Romanian democracy needs more help from the E.U. leadership and that of other Western democracies, including the United States. The European Commission should step up pressure on the government to nullify or drastically amend the new laws. And the Trump administration should sanction Romanian officials involved in corruption and the use of violence against peaceful demonstrators under the Magnitsky Act, which was designed to address such abuses. A historic achievement, the consolidation of democracy in former communist states of the Soviet bloc, is in jeopardy in Romania, Poland and Hungary. The Western nations that helped foster it must do more than watch.”

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