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| PROSPECTS FOR THE NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION 10/06/2009 |
| (2009-06-10) |
| Last updated: 2009-06-11 14:36 EET |
After Sunday’s euro-elections, the community issues, tacked in a typically Romanian style, have continued to make the headlines. If we look at their statements, we might think that the leaders of all political parties agree that the appointment of the future European Commissioner, who will represent Romania, is a responsible decision. They said they wanted to meet and decide together who to nominate for the future Commission, which will most probably continue to be led by Jose Manuel Durrao Barosso. The current Romanian Commissioner for Multilingualism, Leonard Orban, is not expected to receive a new mandate, as the National Liberal Party, that supported him in 2007 when they formed the government, are now in opposition following the legislative elections of November 2008. On behalf of the present governing coalition made up of the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party and the leftist Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Prime Minister Emil Boc said that this nomination should give Romania an important position in the European Commission, that is a more visible portfolio than that of multilingualism.
“The European Commissioner is a matter of national interest. I believe the governing coalition has the political responsibility to do everything they can to give Romania an important portfolio in the European Commission. The leaders of the other parties that have representatives in the European Parliament support the idea of internal solidarity in the negotiations with Brussels, but before that, each party should come up with their own proposal for the position of commissioner and the other positions in the Commission’s directorates.”
Valeriu Zgonea is the secretary general of the Social Democratic Party. Here’s what he said:
“The president of our party, Mircea Geoana has called on each political group to make a list of nominees and the directorates they are interested in”.
Posing as an unbiased arbiter, President Traian Basescu has called on all political parties to abstain from disputes, which might cost Romania an important portfolio in the European Commission. He said the responsibility of appointing the European Commissioner lies with the Government and the selection criterion is going to be competence and not political affiliation. No matter how noble and moral the principles invoked by Romania’s president, it’s rather unlikely that they will be observed, all the more so as president Basescu and the Social Democratic leader Geoana are fierce opponents rivals in the presidential election due in autumn.
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