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PNL:the cost for Romania of the EC position is the serious impact on the country image on a European and international level
The cost for Romania of the official position of the European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker and the vice-president Frans Timmermans with regards to the amendment of the justice laws is the ‘serious impact on the image of our country on a European and international level’ a National Liberal Party (PNL)'s press release says.
‘Despite the efforts of the leaders of of the PSD-ALDE (Social Democratic Party-Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, ed. n.) Liviu Dragnea and Calin Popescu Tariceanu to beautify the legislative actions which are against the independence of justice in Romania, the European Commission took position at the highest level, showing that it was not fooled by the manipulation campaigns in the country. The cost for Romania of this official position of the president of the European Commission,Jean Claude Juncker and the prime-vicepresident Frans Timmermans is the serious impact on the image of our country on a European and international level. But this is the position they had to take obliged by the group Dragnea –Tariceanu’ the PNL press release says.
The liberals add that Romania risks being sanctioned on a financial level, by having the European funds cut down, as well as at a political level by the suspension of the right of vote in the European Council if the parliamentary majority continues with these toxic measures which deny the principle of equality to the law’ the quoted source says.
PNL considers that,up to now,the foreign positions referring to the measures against justice have been ignored by the parliamentary majority.
‘The strategic partners of Romania have sent several signals through which they criticise the measures against justice, from the State Department of the US to the embassies of the western states to Bucharest, from the European Council through GRECO to the European Commission which gave warnings in the MCV report. Until now, all these positions have been ignored by the parliamentary position or misinterpreted and transformed in positions contrary to what was expressed’ according to this press release.
The PNL makes an appeal to the PSD, ALDE and UDMR (Hungarian Democrat Union of Romania, ed. n.) MPs to reconsider their position "at the eleventh hour." "Nobody in the EU will accept a country's whole judiciary's compromising for the sake of some leaders who have problems with justice," the release concludes.