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„ Europe is "watching" us; if majority doesn't understand, Romania further treated as "special case", Liberals' Orban says

 The PNL (National Liberal Party, ed. n.) chairman Ludovic Orban said on Thursday evening, in connection with the statements made by the First Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, that Europe is "watching" Romania and that if the representatives of the parliamentary majority do not understand that, Romania will still be treated as a "special case".

"The first thing I want to say - and I do not know if the colleagues in the majority have understood it - is that Europe is watching us and even if for some time there was not much attention to the involutions in Romania, due to the fact that there was a rather positive path, for a while what has been happening in Romania has made Europe to be very interested in. If our colleagues do not understand or if they pretend not to understand, that means they want to harm Romania deliberately (...) If they continue on this path, we will still be treated as a special case, we will be held somewhere in a corner," Orban told private broadcaster Realitatea TV.

He argued that Romania had "moved away" from meeting the conditions for lifting the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM).

"This is transmitted very figuratively through the message of the first vice-president of the European Commission (EC), who said 'run, run, but be careful to run towards the finish' and now, when you are getting close to finish, you are running in the wrong direction. This clearly expresses the EC's clear perception of the fact that we are recording involutions in terms of the judiciary, the independence of the judiciary, the rule of law in Romania," Orban said.

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Friday, March 2, 2018