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| CONSULTATIONS ON THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM 13/08/08 |
| (2008-08-13) |
| Last updated: 2008-08-14 14:41 EET |
What does Romania need to do, to persuade Brussels to waive the monitoring of the judicial system? This is the question that president Traian Basescu and leaders of the parliamentary parties tried to answer in the consultations held Tuesday. Last month, the European Commission issued a report on the Romanian judiciary, which appreciated the performance of the National Anti-corruption Directorate and the establishment of a National Integrity Agency, to check civil servants' assets and interests. But it also found a wide range of flaws, which made the EC keep the monitoring procedure in place.
Newspapers in Bucharest write that, while a common conclusion has been reached, the consultations were not without incidents. The first of these occurred at the onset of the talks, in the presence of journalists, and involved the president and the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Mircea Geoana. According to the paper GARDIANUL, the president blamed parliament, in which the PSD has a majority of seats, for delays in enacting a bill to change the appointment procedure of senior prosecutors, but Geoana countered that the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party (PD-L) was to blame.
Journalists were immediately asked to leave the room, but participants speak of at least one other clash during the talks, when another Social Democrat, Adrian Severin, a member of the European Parliament, criticised the way in which the EC report had been drawn up. According to the paper ADEVARUL, Severin claimed that some of the inaccurate information in the report had been supplied by a close collaborator of the president: the former justice minister Monica Macovei. In reply, Traian Basescu called him a liar and ended the dialogue with him. Nonetheless, a common conclusion was reached in Tuesday's consultations. Political analyst Ion M. Ionita tells us about it:
“There is no doubt that there were thorough discussions after the media left the hall. There must have been plenty of harsh retorts, given the highly sensitive issues brought up by the president, but I believe the first good thing is that they met and talked about these issues in the first place. We could see where the various political parties stand, in very important matters. We needed these talks, we needed parties to clarify their positions, and eventually everbody agreed to pursue a critical goal: to have the monitoring waived by 2009, which I find to be the most important outcome of the meeting.”
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