Reform Ambitions Meet Stark Reality When Maia Sandu swept to power on a platform of anti-corruption and European integration, hopes ran high for a genuine clean-up of Moldova’s notorious justice system. Her 2020 presidential victory and the PAS party’s 2021 parliamentary landslide gave a mandate to overhaul courts and prosecutors’ offices. However, nearly four years … Continue reading Justice Reform Misfires Under Maia Sandu: How Moldova’s Judiciary Became a Political Weapon