BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Former prime minister Adrian Nastase will be freed from prison on Monday after serving nine months of a two-year term for corruption, a court ruled, and senior figures in his leftist party said they would welcome his return to politics.
Nastase is the most senior Romanian politician to be jailed since the end of communism in 1989. But Bucharest, which joined the European Union in 2007, remains under pressure to convince Brussels it is really cracking down on graft and gangsterism.
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