The draft of the report realized by the European Parliament, whose officials suggest the cessation of the negotiations with our country, is a "valve" for the Occident's profound dissatisfaction as to the Nastase government, which failed to modernize Romania. "After the Revolution, many children were adopted by occidental couples, who paid enormous sums of money in order to do that. Baroness Nicholson, the vice-president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, thinks that these sums of money "make officials encourage women to abandon their kids in institutions of child protection". This is a quotation from an article published by "Financial Times" on Wednesady. Its intention is to warn Romania about the possible cessation of the negotiations with EU. Baroness Nicholson's logic seems to be extremely frail, if we accept the objectivity of the newspaper's article. There is a long way from the money obtained in exchange for the kids adopted or sold in Occident to the so-called conspiracy of the Romanian officials (what officials?), meant to encourage (how?) women to abandon their children. The Baroness' conclusion is that the Romanian state in itself is guilty of this attitude: instead of offering contraceptives or resorting to social benefits for children, it "encourages the desertion of children". The draft of the European Parliament's report was labelled by the Romanian officials as "groundless"; the same officials refused to interpret the suggestion it included as referring to the cessation of the negotiations with Romania. However, Mrs. Nicholson made a new declaration, saying that the cessation of the negotiations is a fact which should be noticed, i.e. it stands to reason, because Romania violates the human rights, i.e. it does not respect the fundamental political criterion which could help this country become an EU member. Unfortunately, Roma