Romania's Constitutional Court Strikes Again

By rejecting the President’s challenge to a vague hate speech law, Romania’s already infamous Constitutional Court cements the country’s lead as the EU’s worst-performing democracy—so far.

In Europe’s ongoing authoritarian drift, Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) deserves special recognition: it has mastered the art of dismantling democracy while claiming to defend it.

Last November, in a single move, it managed to throw Romania out of the “flawed democracy” category in The Economist's Democracy Index 2024, directly into “hybrid regime”…