Play-by-play for an extremely difficult project: too many people have built their lives around shaking down their fellow Moldovans. Romania went through its anti-corruption ups and downs and is doing better.
I'm not all that confident that Romania is doing well in this space honestly. Fighting corruption isn't something that you do and it is done forever - its an ongoing struggle for a democratic country. That's partly why I think conversations about the structures underpinning the fight, like those in this article, are really important.
In any case, no one said it was going to be easy and there were always going to be different approaches. Let's see what happens in the coming weeks to clarify what was a fairly bewildering turn this last week.
Well, maybe Romania is just doing better. (Once they're in the EU I don't know to what extent the EU monitors them.)
I agree it's an ongoing struggle. I suspect your perspective as an American is quite valuable, with our long history of addressing corruption at all levels of government, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, but people do get convicted and sometimes it's even in the national news (!)
Play-by-play for an extremely difficult project: too many people have built their lives around shaking down their fellow Moldovans. Romania went through its anti-corruption ups and downs and is doing better.
I'm not all that confident that Romania is doing well in this space honestly. Fighting corruption isn't something that you do and it is done forever - its an ongoing struggle for a democratic country. That's partly why I think conversations about the structures underpinning the fight, like those in this article, are really important.
In any case, no one said it was going to be easy and there were always going to be different approaches. Let's see what happens in the coming weeks to clarify what was a fairly bewildering turn this last week.
Well, maybe Romania is just doing better. (Once they're in the EU I don't know to what extent the EU monitors them.)
I agree it's an ongoing struggle. I suspect your perspective as an American is quite valuable, with our long history of addressing corruption at all levels of government, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, but people do get convicted and sometimes it's even in the national news (!)