Nu Romania este mereu surprinzatoare, ci actualul Guvern. Ne putem astepta la
orice de la Tariceanu&co. Acest guvern a "realizat" niste lucruri care pana
acum 3 ani ni s-ar fi parut de domeniul SF-ului... Ca sa dau doar cateva
exemple:
1. L-a numit in functia de Ministru al Educatiei pe un individ (ca altfel
nu pot sa il numesc) care nu are cultura generala nici cat un copil de
gradinita (sunt convinsa ca toata lumea stie la ce episod ma refer aici)
2. A avut...multi (nu mai srau acum sa ii numar) Ministri anchetati de
DNA, dintre care unii au fost nevoiti (mai mult sau mai putin "impulsionati")
sa paraseasca fotoliul ministerial. ex. Codrut Seres, Zsolt Nagy etc
3. A generat nenumarate crize, in domeniile cele mai importante: Educatie,
Sanatate,Politica Externa, Agricultura
4. A distrus imaginea institutiei Guvernului, limitand valoarea acestei
ramuri a puterii executive la aceea a unui kg de carnati si a unui litru de
palinca.
Mi se pare degradant! Partidele implicate in aceasta guvernare: PNL , PD
(imi permit sa fiu sceptica vis-a-vis de celebrul scandal PNL-PD si sa consider
PD-ul ca fiind inca la guvernare), PC (chiar daca nu se mai afla la guvernare,
a avut un rol decisiv in acest dezastru), UDMR ne-au demonstrat ca nu le pasa
catusi de putin de tara si de romani. Sa lasam PSD-ul sa isi faca treaba si sa
indrepte raul facut de acesti corupti!
Vali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Un articol despre fabulospiritualitatea meniului coruptiei in
Romania. Autorul remarca la un moment dat (foarte corect, de altfel): "Cat
despre soarta d-lui Remes si a altor fosti si actuali ministri suspectati de
coruptie (inclusiv actualul Ministru al Justitiei!), situatia este mai roza
decat ar fi de asteptat in mod rezonabil in oricare alta tara europeana..." Ce
nu stie autorul este ca Romania e... mereu surprinzatoare!
Interesante si cele doua comentarii.
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Vali
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http://www.transatlanticpolitics.com/2007/11/02/corruption-a-minister-for-sausages-and-brandy/
Corruption: A Minister for Sausages & Brandy
In Romania, EU's newest member state, if you want to get a public tender
fixed, the minister might ask you for some euros. Also some sausages and plum
brandy, writes The Economist.
Just weeks ago, the agriculture minister Decebal Traian Remes was shown on
public television in what appeared to be the act of taking an envelope with
15.000 euros. His middleman, also a former minister, was then videotaped going
to Remes' house with boxes of sausages and gallons of plum brandy. The tape
included phone recordings in which Remes was asking the bribe-giver, a local
businessman, about the exact registration numbers of the tenders he wanted to
secure for himself.
Within two days of the tape being shown, Remes was asked by the Premier to
resign. The moment couldn't have been worse for Romania: The European
Commission is threatening to cut 25% of the agricultural subsidies worth 100
million euros if the Government doesn't set up a functioning and transparent
agency for distributing said funds to Romanian peasants.
As for the fate of Mr. Remes and a handful of other former and present
ministers suspected of corruption (including the current Justice Minister!),
things look brighter than could be reasonably expected in any other European
country. An emergency ordinance was recently passed by the Romanian
government; an extraordinary legal procedure usually concerning urgent matters
that enables the government to enact decrees without the usual parliamentary
procedures. As a result of this ordinance, the government dissolved the
commission which conveniently happened to be in the process of lifting the
ministers' immunity, which would have enabled prosecutors to actually
investigate all of this purported corruption. The new commission is unlikely to
resume activity this year, since there are ongoing appeals against the
ordinance.
These delays to corruption trials are, unfortunately, not the first or only
instance of such "politicking". Since Romania became an EU member on January
1st, the political class has been working on all levels to restore the
privileges and impunity mechanisms it lost during the accession process.
Changing the rules during the game seems to be the motto of the current
administration. All sorts of legal exceptions, new amendments and bills are
meant to undo what the former Justice minister Monica Macovei, broadly
appreciated as a true reformist, succeeded in instituting. Unfortunately for
Romania, Macovei was replaced during a government reshuffle in April.
Public perception of corruption is high: according to the last Transparency
International corruption index, Romania is perceived as the most corrupt
country within the EU.
The current Justice Minister Tudor Chiuariu, a former lawyer of a prominent
regional party-boss of the governing Liberal Party, blames it on the
prosecutors. In Chiuariu's eyes, it's not the MPs who change the laws during
the game who are to blame, not the Government who sometimes rules by decree,
nor the judges who are by large majority inherited from the Communist era, when
they served as a mere branch of the political police. No, in Justice Minister
Chiuariu's eyes, this latest bout of corruption is the fault of the
prosecutors! Unlike in East Germany, when upon reunification, all judges were
evaluated and further employed only if it was certain that they would not act
upon political commands, in Romania judges were automatically recycled by the
post-Communists.
For Chiuariu, the activities of the Anticorruption Department, although
praised in the EU Commissions reports, are just political commands. Just
days after his appointment earlier this spring, Chiuariu asked for one of the
top prosecutors to be replaced the head of the department dealing with
top-level politicians. Even after the Superior Council of Magistrates audited
the activity of that prosecutor and found that there are no grounds for him to
be dismissed, Chiuariu persisted and asked the president to replace him, only
to be refused again. If Chiuariu's (and Romania's) history is any indication,
Chiuariu's next step will probably be a draft amendment in order to limit the
presidential powers in this regard so that Chiuariu can expel those prosecutors
he deems dangerous.
On the EU side, the Commission has some leverage left the so-called EU
Cooperation & Verification Mechanism for Justice and Home Affairs - is a
unique post-accession monitoring program for Romania and Bulgaria that was
designed & instituted in order to ensure the proper functioning of the rule of
law and help these two country's fight against corruption. If the progress is
unsatisfactory, the Commission can apply a safeguard clause that would block
any Romanian verdicts from being legally binding in the EU.
If the Romanian justice system continues its current trend, the EU might very
soon have to deal with a failure on the scale of the failure of the EU
Constitution in 2005: Romania would become the first EU member state with a
dysfunctional rule of law and unchecked corruption. Such a scenario would be a
disaster for both the EU & Romania.
This should at least be a lesson for the next EU candidates in line: No EU
accession without a real reform of the political class and judicial system.
The New European
Nov 2nd, 2007
2 Responses to Corruption: A Minister for Sausages & Brandy
# David Gillieson 02 Nov 2007 at 10:52 am
It does seem somewhat perverse that the best leverage that can be brought to
bear on the recalcitrant Romanians is an EU monitoring body - i.e a branch of
an organisation whose auditors have felt themselves unable to sign off on its
accounts for over a decade.
# TMLutason 02 Nov 2007 at 1:19 pm
No, its not perverse at all. When Romania first got its modern independence
it was ruled for 7 years by a local. That didnt work out so well so they
invited the Hohenzollerns in and Romania had foreign royalty until WW I when
Romania allied with the Entente and the Hohenzollerns kicked that branch out of
the family. Not trusting the local blood suckers in favor of a foreign set is
an old habit. Its not that the foreigners are trusted to be more honest. I
think that theyre viewed as much easier to dislodge in case of emergency.
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