Romania changed its choice for Commissioner in response to calls by von der Leyen for gender parity in the next cabinet. Bucharest is vying for an economic portfolio and has nominated a former minister for EU funds and secretary of state for public procurement, newly-elected MEP Roxana Mînzatu.
Ugh, she’s a member of PSD. Can elaborate if anyone cares, but that party is an anchor on the neck of Romania.
Also, she went to Dimitrie Cantemir University, which is a laughing stock here in Romania. It’s very much a diploma mill. I’m not even sure they’re allowed to give diplomas anymore.
Well, they gotta pretend they’re not the anti-EU, pro-corruption populist POS they are at home, I guess.
They’re not actually anti-EU, that’d be AUR. They’re more EU-agnostic imho. They’re heavily corrupt, regressive, and obsessed with “christian family values” though (as I’m sure you know).
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Yea, that sounds more like it, indeed. However, they never miss the opportunity to blame Brussels for their own failures tho.
Isn’t PSD governing right now? Would be a bit too much to hope for that they wouldn’t nominate someone from either PSD or PNL, I assume.
True. It’s not surprising, it’s just annoying. We won’t have a change in politics until the older generation dies off. They already lost a lot of power when the DNA started actually enforcing anti-corruption measures, so they’ve gone from the only dominant force in Romanian politics to one of the dominant forces.