With Disgraced Leader Behind Bars, Romania Looks to Repair Ties With EU
- PM Dancila wants to undo damage caused by ex-party boss
- Country has been on verge of following path of Hungary, Poland
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Less than a month after Romania’s most powerful politician was thrown in prison for corruption, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila is plotting to undo the damage her former ally did to ties with the European Union.
The country has been on the brink of following Hungary and Poland into the EU’s bad books as officials in Brussels accused it of backsliding on democracy. But with the architect of that dispute -- former ruling-party boss Liviu Dragnea -- now serving a 3 1/2-year sentence, Dancila thinks it’s time for a rapprochement.