Denisa Maruntoiu
The National Liberal Party is controlled by oligarchs, the disclosure of the former Securitate collaborators is a scheme to compromise reformists, and the government is torn apart by internal conflicts and is incapable of dealing with Romania's EU accession. These are just some of the main conclusions of a report completed by the European Parliament's General Directorate for Foreign Affairs, which was released Monday to the media.
The report, completed at the end of September, immediately after the EC presented its last report on Romania's readiness to join the EU, points out that relations within the ruling coalition have deteriorated in the past months - mainly because of tensions between the Democrats and Liberals - and predicts early elections in 2007.
The same document states that Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu's Liberals are "better friends" with the Conservative Party (PC) and the Hungarian Democratic Alliance (UDMR), two parties which, according to the report, are led by people who made huge fortunes due to the chaotic economic changes that followed the anti-communist revolution in 1989.
The Conservative Party's leader, Dan Voiculescu, is labeled as a "media mogul that was declared a former Securitate collaborator and who called on the EU not to meddle in Romania's businesses."
The report also describes the Liberal Party as a fraction controlled by "businesspeople who are also involved in politics, either directly or through allies, and who are afraid that the EU's efforts to improve the public life will affect the climate that allowed them to become extremely rich." Furthermore, the report points out that leading Liberals like Theodor Stolojan and Valeriu Stoica, "who are in favor of creating a pro-reforming movement alongside Traian Basescu's Democrats," are on the verge of being kicked out from the Liberal Party - the same as Mona Musca, described as a victim of the "Securitate disclosure process."
However, Integration Minister Anca Boagiu said the co-president of the Romania-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, Guido Podesta, pointed out the report was not ordered by anyone and that the EP's Foreign Affairs Commission has nothing to do with the statements in the report, nor does it acknowledge them as representing the EP's stance. Foreign Affairs Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu also said the report is "an internal document with no political relevance."
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