Some good news on #ruleoflaw front with significant ruling from European Court of Human Rights which unanimously held Romanian authorities violated applicant's right to a fair trial & right to freedom of expression of applicant now the EU's first European Public Prosecutor
Two particularly remarkable features. 1/ Court held Romania to have impaired *very essence* of applicant’s right of access to a court owing to specific boundaries for a review of her case set down in ruling of Const Court (another "const court" whose independence is questionable)
2/ Very rare instance where ECtHR has found interference complained of did *not* pursue legitimate aim for purposes of Article 10 ECHR. Corrupt autocrats then in charge in ROM had audacity to claim they were protecting #ruleoflaw while in effect seeking to destroy it... 
3/ These developments seem to have been written with situation of Polish judges and prosecutors in mind who are now subject to Soviet-style harassment, intimidation and silencing tactics in open breach of Polish Constitution, EU and ECHR law standards
cc @RULEOFLAWpl
cc @RULEOFLAWpl
@RULEOFLAWpl 4/ Para 124 seems to be particularly worth noting in light of situation in Poland where we now have a sham constitutional court, a sham nat council of the judiciary and a sham 'disciplinary chamber'
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