The governing coalition formed in June 2019, aiming to fight the oligarchy in the country is now falling apart. Sixty-three deputies, 34 from the Socialist Party and 29 deputies from the Democratic Party dismis…
After the government assumed the responsibility for the new amendments to the Law of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Socialists filed a no-confidence vote against the government led by Prime Minister Sandu. Sixty-…
Moldova spent around €35.5 million (685.4 million lei) in five years for implementing justice reform, during 2013-2017. In order to construct a corruption-free, independent, professional and impartial justice s…
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chișinău, on a post-election day! In a historic win for the Socialist Party, Ion Ceban becomes the first pro-Eastern mayor of this European city. With 29 percent of the vote f…
After the new governing coalition formed by the ACUM Bloc and the Socialist Party came to power in June 2019, the Prosecutor General tendered his resignation. Since then, the Superior Council of Prosecutors ini…
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chișinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: our feature investigates the grounds for two criminal investigations targeting the President of Moldova’s Supreme Court – one for…
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chișinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: our feature investigates conditions in the penitentiary system, which have made Moldova lose case after case at the European Court…
Since the beginning of 2019, 72 convicts have been released from prisons in Moldova on the grounds that they were being held in inhuman and degrading conditions that violated the European Convention on Human Ri…
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chișinău on its “birthday”! Here’s what’s happening this week: our feature breaks down the many moving pieces in the “theft of the century” investigation and explains why the…
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău after a boozy wine day weekend! Here’s what’s happening this week: we feature a story on the troublesome revamping of the Superior Council of Magistrates, the main in…