Nearly a quarter-century after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the painful cries for “Freedom” can still be heard from people demonstrating in Europe. In Romania, a member of the European Union since 2007, people are still searching for democratic values that have been buried under the despotic regime of the country’s controversial president, Traian Basescu.

Exactly one year ahead of the next Romanian presidential elections, Basescu is regaining his autocratic rule that was weakened by ...