Romania might pretend, with a certain justification that it is treated as a second rank EU member state, one newspaper reads on Wednesday quoting an editorial in the Financial Times. Elsewhere in the news, PM Boc might have a counter candidate in the internal Democrat Liberal Party elections scheduled for May. In the same vein, PDL Vice President Videanu declared that the party registered a 8% increase in the last two months, thus proving Romanians believe this is the only real alternative. Last but not least, Romanian Roma in Finland have access to medical services.
Evenimentul Zilei quotes the Financial Times reading that Romania might pretend, with a certain justification, that it is treated as a second rank member in the EU. FT reads that Romania and Bulgaria were admitted in the EU in 2007 under a monitoring regime targeted to promote EU standards of government but which the two countries still need to reach.
Regarding the two countries' adhesion to Schengen, the foreign financial newspaper reads that the same monitoring regime might hinder their chances to join Schengen. The British publication reads that the two countries joined the EU even though there were plenty of suspicions at the EU level and other members have every right to maintain their only control instrument.
The indicators of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism are directly linked to the country’s credibility to join Schengen. Even though the problems exposed by France and Germany are legitimate, it was not raised entirely in good faith, FT reads.
In politics today, Democrat Liberals brag about an 8% increase in electoral favor in the last two months and Gandul quotes PDL Vice President Videanu saying that people realized that their only real option is PDL since the Opposition did not offer any solutions.
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