Sometimes, when governments try to exempt politicians and high-ranking officials from prosecution for taking backhanders and for sticking their fingers in the state coffers, the general public gets angry. And for some reason, when the Romanian government thought that this was a good idea to start the year off, ordinary people just didn’t get it.

Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal...