The European Commission said, on Tuesday 22 November, in a new report on Romania under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) that it could now end the country’s specific monitoring system, which was put in place in 2007 when it joined the EU.
Romania - like Bulgaria, which was the subject of a last CVM report at the end of 2019 - can indeed now be assessed in the framework of the Commission’s annual Rule of Law report, which has been monitoring the situation of the EU27 in...