Mircea Marian: "The report is a sample of fariseism produced by the gelatine bureaucrats from Brussels who have emasculated their own document."
Not one of the Romanian senior officials accused of corruption has yet been sentenced. These people are protected by the parliament, the Superior Council of Magistrates and the Judges of the High Court. The Government is not hastening not to promote an anti-corruption law that will provide minimum mandatory sentences "sufficiently dissuasive." These facts are presented in the last European Commission report. The conclusion, amazing, of the document is: "Romania has begun to go in the right direction."
That shows a typical sample of hypocrisy by the gelatine bureaucrats from Brussels, which, under political pressure, have emasculated their own report. The threat that Romania's accession to the Schengen area and the adoption of the euro will be delayed had disappeared overnight, probably at the request of the lobby makers from Bucharest. European Commissioners have shown Romanian politicians that they know how to bark, but they do not have the courage to bite. A complicated phrase, slipped in an unreadable area of the report, warns us that without an effective monitoring of fraud, we could end up like the Bulgarians and might no longer have "full" access to structural funds. So what? However, customers who, with political blessing, have access to funds are failing to spend all the money which are provided by the good Samaritans of Europe. The problem is that we are unable to steal all that they provide us. As for the application of safeguard clause, "the Commission considers that the support is more effective than sanctions." What a sickening lie! Does someone from Bruxelles thinks that Tariceanu and his counselor Chiuariu are failing to destroy corruption because they have not received enough aid from the European Commission?
If I would be in the place of the parliamentarians from Bucharest, I would hasten to mark the publication of the last report by the committee through an extraordinary session in which to reject the request for starting the prosecution against Nastase and Mitrea. In fact, this document is just the epiphany from the tomb of the fight with corruption. Rest in peace! In November 2007, Belgian prosecutor Willem de Pauw wrote in a report prepared for the European Commission, that if efforts to fight corruption in Romania continues to evaporate at the same pace, in six months the country will return to the situation from in 2003. His prophecy was carried out almost entirely. The difference between the situation from 2003 and the one from 2008 is that now, officials in Brussels are willing to close their eyes to what happens in Romania, promoted (deserved?) among EU members. And the public opinion in the country is fed up with a debate that seems to be completely sterile. In 2003, I do not think that people like Oprişan would have had courage to present themselves before the electorate. In 2008, their deeds were pardoned by the popular vote.
If the EU could have been itself a place of corruption and wasteful spending of the public money, today, Romania would have been punished as well as Bulgaria. Or at least would have received a clear and firm ultimatum. Rather than use the whip , the mild President Barroso offered to the corrupt Romanian politicians a piece of sugar and asked them to behave.
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