International Herald Tribune: Guvernul României a fost aprobat (En) Internațional / Mass Media :| la 29 Dec 2004 - 01:45 |
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Articol apărut în ediția de miercuri, 29 decembrie, a cotidianului International Herald Tribune, în care este anunțată validarea cabinetului condus de premierul Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu și respingerea candidaturii Cristinei Pârvulescu pentru funcția de ministru al Integrării Europene din cauza 'ignoranței' acesteia într-un domeniu pe care ar fi trebuit să-l conducă: Ignorance of EU kills nominee's chances Romania's incoming center-right government was forced to reshuffle its proposed cabinet Tuesday just hours before a successful parliamentary confidence vote after one of its key nominees was judged too inexperienced to hold the post of European Integration Minister. Calin Tariceanu, the designate prime minister, bowed to pressure from the Parliament's foreign affairs committee after it concluded that Cristina Parvulescu, 29, and the youngest member of the cabinet, was unable to answer basic questions about the European Union. Parvulescu, a department director at Bucharest City Hall, had been nominated as the European integration minister, essentially the top person responsible for overseeing all of Romania's negotiations with the EU. The integration minister, along with the justice minister, is one of the most important and high-profile posts in the new government, particularly since Romania wants to join the EU by 2007 despite lagging in implementing judicial reforms and in stamping out corruption. Emila Dinga, a 48-year-old economics professor, was nominated to replace Parvulescu. Several hours after the change, a joint session of both houses of Parliament voted 265 to 200 for Tariceanu's government. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, last October sharply criticized Romania's judicial system and said that corruption touched almost every aspect of society. Traian Basescu, the former mayor of Bucharest who was elected president this month after a surprise victory over Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, a Socialist, said he would make the fights for judicial reform and against corruption the priorities of the new government. After several weeks of haggling over forming a new government, and with Nastase trying to remain in power, Tariceanu managed to forge a coalition among his Justice and Truth Alliance and two smaller parties. One is the Hungarian Democratic Alliance of Romania, the kingmaker in Nastase's outgoing government. The Humanist Party also agreed to join the coalition. The new government, made up of young technocrats with little experience, will not enjoy any honeymoon period given the amount of work required to fulfill the EU's strict timetable for implementing thousands of laws and meeting EU standards over the next two years. The EU has already indicated that if Romania is not ready by then, its entry to the 25 member union could be postponed for a year. Basescu said this month that he still believed Romania could be ready, but he also held out the possibility of some delay. |
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