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| Political Talks on Europe’s Future |
| (2011-12-15) |
| Last updated: 2011-12-16 15:54 EET |
All Romanian parties agree to the European Fiscal Union treaty approved at the latest EU summit. This was the main conclusion drawn by Romanian President Traian Basescu following discussion with the parties in power and the opposition.
Traian Basescu: “Today’s debates were not stipulated in the Constitution, but were meant to find common ground on the issue of the fiscal union treaty. My conclusion is that all parties in parliament will support this agreement, even if we must revise the Constitution to implement it.”
Even if they’re not planning to block the fiscal agreement treaty, the social-liberal opposition looks to make sure that the government won’t use debates on this topic as a medium for propaganda. The Social Democratic and National Liberal parties insist on the need to form a crisis committee to include members of the power and the opposition alike, while benefiting from technical assistance from the National Bank. Social democrat leader Victor Ponta said:
Victor Ponta: “In a joint anti-crisis committee, we also included experts from the National Bank. The President, while recognizing the need for such a framework for discussion between the power and the opposition, does not believe the National Bank’s direct involvement to be necessary.”
For the Liberal Democratic Party, number one in the ruling coalition, a revision of the Constitution, imposed by the implementation of the European fiscal treaty, would provide a good opportunity to alter the fundamental law, so as to turn Parliament into a smaller, single-chamber Parliament.
The opposition warns on the possible confusion created and wants to avoid a referendum asking the population to vote both on the single-chamber Parliament and the fiscal union treaty. The Social Liberal Union already believes that the motion to merge next year’s local and legislative elections, proposed by the Government, is a severe violation of democratic rules.
The Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians, second in size in the ruling coalition, also agrees with the Liberal Democrats and asks that the Constitution be revised solely relating to the fiscal treaty. Without the ethnic Hungarians’ party, the liberal democrats are unable to promote their own government projects, so they are now forced to take into account the position expressed by their partners in the ruling coalition. No Romanian party has opposed the fiscal union treaty, but an agreement on its implementation methodology has yet to be reached.
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