Govt.'s decision on corruption and protests in Romania reverberate in the international press

Major publications from around the world have reported about the recent events and massive protests in Romania, triggered by the Government’s decision to adopt an emergency ordinance that decriminalizes some corruption offences, including abuse of office. BBC News covered the massive protests in Bucharest in a story titled: Romania protests grow over corruption decree. “The Romanian capital, Bucharest, has seen one of its largest ever anti-government protests after a decree was passed that could free dozens of officials jailed for corruption,” the British news publication reports. Other international publication also reported about the huge protests staged in the Romanian capital last night. For example, a Deutsche Welle story said: Biggest anti-corruption protests held in Romania since fall of communist rule, Euronews reported: Protesters in Romania hold huge demonstration over government ‘anti-corruption U-turn’, France24 journalists wrote “Hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets across Romania on Wednesday to protest the government's decriminalising of a string of corruption offences, the largest demonstrations since communism fell in 1989" (story here), and Reuters reported: “More than 250,000 Romanians demonstrated on Wednesday against a government decree decriminalizing some graft offences, seen as the biggest retreat on reforms since the country joined the European Union in 2007" (story here). Other publications that informed their readers about the protests in Romania are The Guardian -here, Aljazeera