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“People of integrity in the system need to step up and fight. Fight openly, even if it means fighting against their own colleagues.” President Maia Sandu on justice reform
Justice reform will move forward, and prosecutors and judges who cannot demonstrate their integrity will continue to be removed from the system, says President Maia Sandu in an interview with ZdG. People of int…
11 August
“We don’t hold them with a heavy hand”. Maia Sandu responds to criticism of pre-vetting by several prosecutors, including Veronica Dragalin, head of the PA
The fact that more prosecutors will leave the system if they are forced to go through the Pre-Vetting Commission evaluation “should not scare us.” The statements were made by Maia Sandu in an interv…
11 August
ZdG Exclusive: Interview with President Maia Sandu about the decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice on candidates for the Supreme Council of Magistracy and the Supreme Council of Prosecutors
“We see yet another attempt by the system to put a spanner in the works of justice reform and efforts to remove corrupt people from the system. These decisions confirm once again that the system does not…
11 August
19 years of ZdG. How much does it cost and who pays?
On July 29th we celebrated 19 years of ZdG and during this time we have had all kinds of excesses: too many threats, too many lawsuits in court, too many corruption cases to investigate, too many requests from…
29 July
Courage, in the eyes of ZdG readers: “Through what you do, you give us a lesson in courage and resistance”
On July 29, 2023, Ziarul de Gardă turned 19. It took a lot of courage to face all the hardships during this period. ZdG wanted to know through its readers the stories of people who showed courage. We present so…
29 July
“They beat them very often, they were tied to radiators or kept a whole day and night in WC, left without food. I decided not to leave it like that, because there are children abandoned by their parents”
About the courage of integrity whistleblowers and how the state (doesn’t) protect them They disclosed illegal practices they observed in the institutions where they are employed or whose beneficiaries the…
29 July
At 19, life is an act of courage
There are 122 of them. All were born on the same day as Ziarul de Gardă, on July 29, 2004. In that year, at the end of July, in our country or in the world, several events took place: it marked a decade since t…
29 July
ZdG at 19: threats, challenges, war. What lessons of courage have the ZdG team learned?
On July 29, Ziarul de Gardă turned 19 years old. It is the age when young people take their first independent steps in life, but often, this fact requires courage. The ZdG team shared their thoughts on the less…
29 July
How the Pre-Vetting Committee was convinced by eight candidates for membership of the Superior Council of Prosecutors that they met the criteria of ethical and financial integrity
The Pre-Vetting Commission announced on Wednesday, July 12, the conclusion of the evaluation of the group of candidates for membership in the Supreme Prosecutors’ Council (SPC). Thus, seven prosecutors wh…
21 July
Chronology of events surrounding the diplomas of the Head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office presented at the competition
The chief prosecutor of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA), Veronica Dragalin, is targeted in a scandal related to the competition for the head of the PA, which was held in 2022. In a separate o…
15 July
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