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| THE AVATARS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION (9.10.07) |
| (2007-10-09) |
| Last updated: 2007-10-10 15:56 EET |
The European Commission is preparing a warning letter to Romania because the Agency of Payments in Agriculture functions badly. As of December 1st, the Agency is designed to manage payments for farmers. But its IT service was put in place only recently. That is why, the registration of the 1.3 million applications for subsidies from peasants runs slowly; European experts have noted that some 400,000 applications have been registered twice. In these conditions, the European Commission should activate the safeguard clause for agriculture. Nevertheless, according to sources in Brussels, the European Commission intends to give Bucharest a month respite to solve the situation. Activating the clause would cost Romania one quarter of the European funds for agriculture. Nor in the field of the judiciary does Romania fare better.
In this area too, Bucharest runs the risk of receiving a warning from the EU, which has been monitoring the reforms in the justice system for some time now and demands the intensification of the fight against corruption, high-level corruption in particular. At the moment, this fight has triggered a media war, whose protagonists are the National Anti-Corruption Directorate, the DNA and the Supreme Council of Magistracy. The DNA targets members of several post-communist governments, whatever their political colour and has requested the president’s approval to prosecute them. Incumbent ministers Paul Pacuraru, Tudor Chiuariu and Decebal Traian Remes, members of the National Liberal Party, former social-democrat prime minister Adrian Nastase and his party colleague Miron Mitrea, Zsolt Nagy, a member of the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, Codrut Seres from the Conservative Party, Victor Babiuc, a former member of the Democratic Party and Ioan Avram Muresan from the Christian and Democratic National Peasant Party are all in the focus of the DNA for bribe-taking, peddling in influence, abuse of power.
Incumbent Justice Minister, Tudor Chiuariu believes however that the DNA has become an instrument in the political fight. He said that he had filed several criminal complaints against anti-corruption prosecutors for abuse of power and intellectual forgery. He claims that the DNA’s actions are meant to thwart his intention to dismiss prosecutor Doru Tulus, one of the heads of that institution and has called on the Superior Council of Magistracy to closely check the activity of the anti-corruption prosecutors, who have compiled a file for him too. Moreover, Chiuariu has initiated an amendment to the Law on Ministerial Responsibility, recently endorsed by the government through an emergency ordinance. The amendment dismantles the presidential Commission in charge of approving the prosecution of incumbent or former dignitaries, suspected of corruption.
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