Once Jose Manuel Barroso accepted the new proposal, the internal battle for the naming of the European Commissary ended. As I have written before, the naming of Romaniaâs European Commissary should have been a routine operation, because, once in Brussels, the Romanian politician will serve the interests of the EU, but not the ones of Romania.
The fact that this moment caused another confrontation between the two Palaces can be explained by the fact that the designator of the commissary was thought to be rewarded.
This is just one of the explanations. There would be another one based on the internal conjuncture:
a) there is no constitutional paragraph regarding the institution entitled to name the European Commissary. Since it was a premier, we couldnât talk about any kind of tradition either;
b) the President and the PM have an open conflict. During the SDP (the Social Democratic Party) or RDC (the Romanian Democratic Convention) regime, the two would have reached a deal silently, without any kind of scandal like the one nowadays.
Calin Popescu Tariceanu wanted to shatter all the doubts regarding the fact he was the one naming the new member of the European Government.
Due to this wish of his, the PM made a lot of statements with the purpose of convincing the people that the Government, but not the President, is the institution naming the candidate for the Romanian European Commissary. He managed to do it at first. The fact that the President seemed to step back helped him. Initially, Traian Basescu said he would have the right to name the Romanian representative as well and he wanted Romania to send two proposals to the EU, but he gave up letting Calin Popescu Tariceanu think he had won. The consequence of this was that Tariceanu had to make a flawless decision. The following steps could have been: a) taking counsel with the A
