(Initially published in www.romania-report.ro -- Feb 17, 2006)
Dutch MEP Jan Marinus Wiersma, Socialist coordinator of the monitoring on Romania and Bulgaria, is to visit Romania in order to check the country’s "Social-Democrat Party problems."
Wiersma said that the Romanian senators' recent vote against the anti-corruption bill to give extended powers to of the National Anti-Corruption Department (DNA) could affect the attitude of MEPs at the time of Romania's accession.
Last year, the Socialist group in the Parliament of Europe publicly protected Adrian Nastase and Nicolae Vacaroiu against the present Romanian ruling Coalition's attempt to sack them from offices as speakers of Chamber and Senate.
Wiersma opined Romanian Social-Democrat Party (PSD) senators' vote on the DNA bill could caused change of attitude among MEPs, since one of the main requirements was the very anti-corruption legal framework of the country.
Wiersma said that in case the Social-Democrats will continue to reject the bill this would result into a direct pressure during future debates on a possible 1 year delay of Romania’s accession to EU. He concluded that the anti-corruption issue asks for a complex approach within the country’s political environment, but he eventually expressed hope for progress. Still he opined that PSD did wrong by apposing the bill.
Opinion poll shows SocDem boss as most corrupt in Romania Adrian Nastase tops the “Most corrupt man in Romania” charts, indicate the results of an opinion poll carried out in February 1-6 by the Social Research Bureau (BCS). The former Social Democrat PM and incumbent Speaker of the Chamber is followed, at considerable difference, by Dinu Patriciu, the Liberal oil tycoon who now faces money laundering charges.
Romania Report & sources
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