Romania is on the 53rd position out of 180 countries in the ranking compiled again this year by the famous organization for the defense of the freedom of the press, Reporters Without Borders.
The independence and the quality of the judiciary, the fight against corruption and freedom of the press are analyzed in the second anual report of the EC on the rule of law in the European Union
Freedom of the press was restored in Romania following the December 1989 Revolution.
2013 was the darkest year of the last decade in terms of the freedom of the press.