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European Commission Deputy Secretary-General Paraskevi Michou had a meeting at the Government
Transparency is like a medicine through which we can heal corruption, European Commission Deputy Secretary-General Paraskevi Michou said in a Tuesday meeting at the Government with Romanian Minister for Public Consultation and Civic Dialogue Violeta Alexandru.
According to a Ministry for Public Consultation and Civic Dialogue (MCPDC) release sent to AGERPRES, the most recent measures for increasing transparency and practicing good governance taken by the Government were discussed with the non-governmental organisations and the business environment at the Government seat on Tuesday, during a joint meeting of Minister Violeta Alexandru with EC Deputy Secretary-General Paraskevi Michou,
Paraskevi Michou showed interest in the active measures for increasing transparency and practicing good governance in Romania, the release reads.
"The presence of the Deputy Secretary-General is related to the manner in which the European experience on transparency can support the concrete results, obtained by Romania's Government in this area, with an obvious interest of the European institutions for the evolutions in Romania in the area of participating governance, including in the direction of increasing transparency on the decisions concerning public policies," the release reads.
According to MCPDC, on this occasion Paraskevi Michou said that the efforts in the transparency area must continue after the elections this year.
"Transparency is like a medicine through which we can heal corruption. The efforts in the transparency area conducted by the team of the Ministry for Public Consultation and Civic Dialogue must continue after the elections this year. This Government has set a standards of decision-making transparency proving, through the measures taken, that governance can be participating," she said.
At the same time, the most recent measure in the transparency area is the MCPDC initiative approved by the Government last week on creating the Single Register of Interest Transparency (RUTI) on a government level. RUTI is a solution under which decision-makers can know and get the involvement of specialist groups in the civil society during the entire process of drawing up public policies. The online platform which will technically back this demarche will be launched in mid-October.
"The current form of the Single Register of Interest Transparency recently approved by the Government shows the Executive's commitment to the final goal, that of practicing a good governance meant to eventually lead to increasing the quality of the public policies. This demarche must continue in the years to come, as RUTI represents one of the main prevention measures provided in the National Anticorruption Strategy, an approach through which we ensured the minimum conditions for the main initiatives in the transparency area of the current Government to continue," Minister Violeta Alexandru said.
In the discussion with the EC official also invited were representatives of some NGOs, namely the Centre for Independent Journalism, Funky Citizens, the Foundation for the Development of the Civil Society, Transparency International Romania, but also of companies' associative structures : AmCham, the Foreign Investors Council and the Romanian Lobby Registry Association, the release also reads.