The European Commission will soon make public the report on freedom and efficiency of justice in Romania. This is a result of a special supervisory procedure applied for the Romanians to see how seriously they are affected by corruption

The European Commission will soon make public the report on freedom and efficiency of justice in Romania. This is a result of a special supervisory procedure applied for the Romanians to see how seriously they are affected by corruption, and whether they should be put in quarantine to protect the health of the law in the case of the other members of the EU.

The truth is that, without saying that, here, things are worse than elsewhere, Romania is overwhelmed by corruption. The corruption lies in the distortion of the macro-relation between demand and supply for the purpose of the transfer of illicit public treasure to private patrimonies. This form of corruption, mostly invisible to the common citizen, which seriously affects his existence, cannot be achieved without the involvement of the state officials, but most of the time, it also needs the participation of external operators. It is, therefore, trans-partisan and transnational.

Small corruption operates as a form of illicit secondary redistribution in the direct relations between citizens and civil servants, the first having to purchase for the latter undue advantages in exchange for obtaining their rights. We could talk about an "office corruption." This is the most powerful and more aware perceived by the citizens.

There is also a mass corruption. It consists in the general state of illegality that characterizes almost every action of the citizens from the tip culture, cars parking in prohibited places or defying the public authority and tax evasion, the indiscipline at work or requesting and obtaining of rights unrecognized b