Moldavian president Vladimir Voronin accused the European Union for having a destructive attitude towards Moldova. Elsewhere in the news, the Romanian press also writes about the new IMF predictions on Romania’s budget deficit. Last but not least, a Romanian worker is supposed to be the cause of a fire in Olbia, Sardinia.
Romania Libera reads incumbent Moldavian president Vladimir Voronin accused the European Union for having a destructive attitude towards Moldova, because the group of European Parliamentary observes for the elections on Wednesday were lead by a Romanian, according to Russian press agency RIA Novostri, quoted by Romanian press agency NewsIn. "The EU knows that our relationship with Romania is complicated, but it designates a Romanian citizen to head the observation group for our elections. This is a direct challenge for us", he said.
The EU Parliament observes group, presided by Romanian Marian-Jean Marinescu, featured Renate Weber and Cristian Preda - both Romanian - but also green, socialist and liberal observers: Polish Andrzej Grzyb, Lithuanian Zigmantas Balcytis, Bulgarian Kristian Vighenin and Latvian Tatjana Zdanoka. Voronin added that the Romanian President Traian Basescu was planning to award opposition journalists with Romanian national honours, a proof that Romania has been fighting against the Republic of Moldova for many years.
Voronin said that Russia was "a friend in need", for helping out Moldova with money without preliminary conditions and for making it easy for Moldavian goods to be sold on the Russian market. Romanian minister of Foreign Affairs Cristian Diaconescu declared for Romanian TV channel Realitatea TV that he did not want to start rhetorical confrontations with Vladimir Voronin, and so endangering the future of 4.5 million citizens. He was displeased with Voronin's accusing the EU of a
