This is not the title I though of initially for today’s column. It is the title of a book published in 2007 by the current Commissioner for Justice, Jacques Barrot, including a comment on the relationship between the French that had refused the Constitutional Treaty in 2005 and the United Europe.
This is not the title I though of initially for today’s column. It is the title of a book published in 2007 by the current Commissioner for Justice, Jacques Barrot, including a comment on the relationship between the French that had refused the Constitutional Treaty in 2005 and the United Europe.
I also chose this title because it is likely to define the views of Romanians regarding the European Union after the adherence to the European Union.
The last European Commission report on the justice in Romania has been commented upon in the country and abroad. I wrote about the report too, and I will not repeat the things written. But I think it would be useful to try some more general conclusions now, apart from the moment and the details of the text itself.
Romania's relationship with the institutional Europe is at its beginning, and any beginning is marked by smaller or greater mistakes. But Romania's relationship with the monitoring bodies of all kinds is longer. Basically, it started with the postcommunism. We have been monitored regarding an issue or another, in a period or another, by the Council of Europe, the IMF, NATO, the World Bank and the EU.
Always, the monitoring was regarded very seriously by the Romanians as well as by the politicians and analysts. They have enjoyed a certain presumption of seriousness that came from an area that I know not to be connected to the Balkan procedures that deform the reality. On the other hand, Romania depended in one way or another on the relationship with thos