BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Constitutional Court on Monday struck down changes to the criminal code made by the ruling Social Democrats that would have halted many anti-graft cases in one of the European Union's most corrupt countries.
The ruling comes at a sensitive time, following street protests on Saturday by Romanians outraged by the slow response of authorities to the murders of two teenage girls.
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