Euro News: The Strasbourg court has upheld the bribery conviction of a former Romanian MEP

The European Court of Human Rights upheld the bribery conviction of former Romanian MEP implicated in a 2011 cash-for-influence scandal. In 2016, Severin was sentenced to over three years in prison for accepting money from undercover reporters to propose amendments in the European Parliament. The Strasbourg court ruled that Severin’s trial provided adequate safeguards for his defense rights…