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Viorel Stefan, deputy prime minister, rejected by EU commissioners, in trying to establish meetings în Brussels
Romania’s deputy prime minister Viorel Stefan, in charge of fiscal and economic affairs, failed to arrange official meetings in Brussels with European Union’s commissioners in charge of major economic sectors, government sources told Business Review. His visit in Brussels will start tomorrow, 17th of May, according to government sources.
Viorel Stefan, a former minister of Finance in 2017 and currently deputy prime minister in the government, will make a visit to Brussels this week and tried to arrange official meetings on May 18 with major EU commissioners in charge of fiscal and economic affairs of the Union.
But Valdis Dombrovskis, vice-president of the European Commission for the euro and social dialogue, also in charge of financial stability, financial services and capital markets union, and Pierre Moscovici, EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs, taxation and customs, refused to meet Romania’s deputy prime minister, the sources said.
The only EU commissioner who agreed to meet Viorel Stefan is Corina Cretu, representing Romania in the European Commission, in charge of regional policy.
Romania’s government has currently some disagreements with EU’s executive arm concerning the fiscal policy, as well as concerning the controversial changes to Justice laws.