Ovidiu Nahoi: "Vosganian returned from Brussels, bearing his failure and that of the entire Romanian political class , a class that received exactly what it deserves “.
Varujan Vosganian returned from Brussels last night bearing the sins of an entire political class, not just his own . His candidature had too many flaws . One of then was that he was practically unknown in Europe’s capital, compared to his Bulgarian counterpart , Meglena Kuneva, Bulgarian integration minister.
His lack of experience in the ministerial filed, was also one of the possible reasons for rejection.Moreover, Vosganian is a Liberal and the key groups in the European Parliament are popular and socialist. It was rather impossible to consider that Manuel Barroso could afford to risk supporting such a candidature.
We can only speculate as to how important was Vozganian’s alleged collaboration with the former Communist Secret Service or Securitate. Lacking a confirmation from CNSAS( the watchdog for studying Securitate archives) we cannot be certain of this information.
However, Vozganian’s connection to media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu was the final blow to the head . Vantu, involved in various money scams, financially supported Vozganian’s former party Right-center Union or UFD. This was a fact that could not be easily be put aside. No wonder! In the fall of 2004, the European MPs were extremely harsh with the candidates for the Barroso Committee.
Estonia’s Commissioner, Siim Kallas, had to answer thoroughly for a EUR10 million fraud case for which he was already found not-guilty . Latvia’s first nomination, Ingrida Udre, had to be replaced after she was accused of involvement in financial irregularities on the party she was part of.
Therefore, Euro MPs are highly scrupulous when they have any slightest presumption of guilt, unlike Bucharest authorities when it comes
