Economics
Romania Edges Closer to EU Sanctions in Rule-of-Law Dispute
- Commission wrote to government warning over law changes
- Hungary, Poland already in hot water over judicial reforms
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Romania received a new warning from the European Union that recent legislative changes breach rule-of-law norms and bring it closer to the kind of sanctions already hanging over other eastern European countries.
The warning raises the prospect that Romania will join Poland and Hungary in facing EU censure for breaching the bloc’s democratic norms, a process known as Article 7. The bloc’s ex-communist region has come under increased scrutiny as Poland and Hungary sought further sway over courts, prompting some European leaders to push for a cut in their development funding.