Last week, Jean-Claude Juncker lavished praise on Romania for its anti-corruption crackdown and expressed concern about proposed reforms.
This betrayed a lack of understanding of what is happening in my homeland.
The EU Commission has been complicit in failures of due process and abuses of power that have been evidenced for all to see in recent years.
Corruption is a bl...
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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.