Well, there were some justice reforms planned as part of the Association treaty. Don't believe those were executed though.
I can say, that these reforms don't work at all. My country also reformed its justice system prior to EU integration. It was a disaster frankly. Our supreme court chairman (and chief justice) is the guy with friendly contacts with mafia. There is a recording of him talking amicably with head of albanian mafia. I shit you not, no one cares. The only ones that atleast try to write about it are the papers. He can shut them down magnificently, lately he got 33,000€ as court settlement for infringing his honor by mentioning that recording. He also almost won (the case is now before Supreme Court, which he presides) 150,000€ from General Prosecutor's office for publishing that recording. That was sadly not the only cases he won. When you lose your whole arm (for example in car accident) you get 15,000€ in damages (less if you lose your left arm).
He also routinely insults anyone who disagrees with him or tries to make him face that recording. Also the other judges of the Supreme Court are pretty much bullied into submission by disciplinary hearings. Atleast one judge has suicided and one died from illness and stress (because of the constant harrassment) and some have resigned from the court. He went from being Minister of Justice in 2009 to being Chief Justice.
So I have very little hope for this "deal and reforms". We are also in EU, but then Bulgaria and Romania are in too, so we are not the worst of the worst
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