Private Wealth, Public Doubt - How the Romanian Constitutional Court Undermines Asset Declarations, and the EU

Private Wealth, Public Doubt - How the Romanian Constitutional Court Undermines Asset Declarations, and the EU Hoppe, Tilman Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-06-27 eng Public officials having to disclose their private wealth is a powerful anti-corruption tool that led to the imprisonment or dismissal of hundreds of corrupt public officials across Europe. In Romania, this included ministers and a Parliamentary President. Despite this success, the Romanian Constitutional Court now substantially undermined the effectiveness of asset declarations: it declared the online publication of declarations unconstitutional and invalidated the provision on declaring wealth of adult family members of public officials. There are two reasons for other governance-reforming countries not to follow this case law. CC BY-SA 4.0 Hoppe, Tilman Corruption European Court of Human Rights European Union Korruption Romanian Constitutional Court Rumänien anti-corruption Korruption Rumänien 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/asset-disclosure-romania-ecthr/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/6033bbb1dc56bada 250627 10.59704/6033bbb1dc56bada Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)