Former minister of Justice in Romania, Monica Macovei, is the EU Woman of the Year 2008.
She currently works for the UK government as a consultant on justice reforms in EU candidate countries. But it was her efforts in rooting out political corruption in Romania which won her the plaudits of an international jury. She was widely credited with implementing justice reforms that allowed Romania to enter the European Union (EU) on January 1, 2007.
Presenting her with the award, a gold broche, Pottering, EU Parliament´s President, said she and the other candidates were a "symbol and model for women everywhere" and that she could be proud of her achievements.
Dedicating the prize to "all Romanians who believe in the rule of law", she said, "Tackling corruption has been the most challenging thing in my life but I will continue because I believe in zero corruption."
Unfortunately I believe that corruption is still an important problem in Romania. And there should be increased efforts to solve the problem of corruption. There is still a lot of corruption both at national (central) level as well as at local (regional) level.
2 comments:
Ms Monica Macovei is an extraordinary lady, indeed, who was fully dedicated to the Romanian society, even to those people who did not like her.
I agree, corruption is still a big problem and very difficult to tackle with. What should we start with? How can there be improvements? Everything is connected with everything...I see this every day here in Romania but my experience in Western Europe helps me a lot - individually for the moment; I hope in a larger context in the future...
I think that the biggest problem is the small corruption... small gifts to doctors, teachers, etc.
This is something that we can all try to stop.
And let's hope that the big corruption cases are slowly being handled by the justice. You can see some good examples in the football world.
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