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Evasion of taxes up to €1 million ($1.1 million) will no longer be punished under Romanian law, provided that the offending taxpayer pays up within a month, after President Klaus Iohannis signed the relevant law on Friday. The Romanian supreme court had earlier approved the controversial measure, which is aimed at recovering large sums in unpaid taxes. The previous upper limit was €100,000. The Bucharest parliament had passed the amendment shortly before Christmas. It was backed by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu’s Social Democrats (PSD) and Senate President Nicolae Ciucă’s National Liberals (PN…

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