Barroso is bewildered by Romanian Premier Victor Ponta, who is rapidly dismantling the rule of law and increasing the flow of kickbacks. Ponta and his mafia have been engaged in a bitter power struggle with Romanian President Traian Basescu and his mafia. Using decrees that often contradict parameters delineated by the country's Constitutional Court, Basescu was suspended from his office at the beginning of July. Ponta's actions are very clearly a coup d'etat. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Balkan peninsula is characterized by stupidity, corruption, laziness, and incivility. Diogenes would not be able to find an honest man in all Balkans. Bismarck predicted a world war would ignite because of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans. Indeed, World War I was triggered when a Serb assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
Barroso points out no rules are obeyed in Romania anymore. What we are currently experiencing is the battle between two mafias which are willing to do anything. Neither of them possesses legitimacy, but they are prepared to fight to the end for influence and for existence.
Plato and Aristotle asserted that different regimes produce different types of human beings, and regimes ought to be judged by the character of their citizens. In Fourth Reich, the growth of interventionist welfare state has damaged personal responsibility and integrity, fostered dependence, undermined families, rejected freedom, and promoted corruption.
All countries of Balkans are very corrupt. In Greece, the most corrupt country in Occident, political corruption is accepted as a normal thing, and most Greeks rely on bribes, graft, sinecures, cheating, incivility, nepotism, cronyism, cancer of socialism, jingoism, iconolatry, perjury, lies, and kickbacks. The character of modern Greece is the opposite of the character of ancient Greece of Plato and Aristotle. The freakish government of Greece stole my computer!
Eurokleptoctats do not want competition from Romanokleptocrats! Ponta's three-party mafia, called the Social Liberal Union, is populated by a worrying number of kleptocrats who are engaged in corruption, abuse of office, or crime. Antonescu's National Liberal Party, for example, provides a political home to the oil magnate and billionaire Dinu Patriciu, who has successfully withstood years of investigations into corrupt privatization deals. Head of the insignificant Conservative Party, Dan Voiculescu, is a former Securitate employee who was instrumental in helping ex-Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu acquire hard currency. Now one of the richest people in the country, he owns the influential television broadcasters Antena1 and Antena3.
Most of politicians belonging to Basescu's Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) are suspected of corruption. Indeed, were Basescu to be voted out of office, corruption investigations into his past dealings could resume. An old real estate deal of his has come under suspicion and his role in the privatization of parts of Romania's shipping fleet has also yet to be fully exposed. Ponta calls Basescu a duplicitous scoundrel, a scorpion that kills everything around him, the biggest liar in Romanian history and a man without shame or honor.
EU's message to Ponta: Please do not steal, we hate competition!
Barroso wrote to Ponta: "I would like to express the European Commission's concerns about the allegations of pressure and intimidation of judges of the Constitutional Court which have been brought to our attention. It is essential that such allegations are immediately brought before the competent authorities and thoroughly investigated, so that any attempt to put pressure on the Court is swiftly struck down, in line with the Romanian Government's commitment to ensure that all parties should refrain from statements or other type of interference aimed at undermining or influencing the judicial process, including by taking action against any violation of this commitment.
"I trust that you and your Government will take in the interest of Romania and of its citizens, the decisions required to implement the commitments you have undertaken. The full and rigorous implementation of all of the recommendations set out in the report of 18 July is essential for Romania's credibility and economic and financial stability.
"This has to go hand-in-hand with decisive steps to stabilise the political situation whilst avoiding any actions that could further exacerbate the current political climate. I am deeply worried about the intensification of the divisions between the various political actors in Romania and the tone of political discourse across the party spectrum. Through you I would therefore appeal to all political forces in Romania, in government and in opposition, to act with responsibility and restraint and to set their focus very firmly on the urgent need to restore stability.
"The European Commission will continue to monitor the situation very closely and will pay particular attention to the developments since the referendum in its further report under the cooperation and verification mechanism before the end of the year."
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