Mihai Poliţeanu

MIHAI POLIŢEANU (Bucharest, 1977) is Parliamentary Assistant to Monica Macovei, Member of the European Parliament. He worked for the Ministry of Justice, as adviser to the Minister, and two prominent Romanian NGOs, the Romanian Academic Society and Freedom House Romania (local branch of the Freedom House Washington foundation). He studied philosophyattheUniversity of Bucharest and holds an MA in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

PONTA AND THE RULE OF LAW

On 29 July 2012, a referendum on the impeachment of the President took place in Romania. It was the climax of a story that started in May when a new parliamentary majority took power headed by the socialist politician Victor Ponta as Prime Minister and comprising the Social Liberal Union (USL),

2012.09.14.

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