Dancila: I wish transparent relation with EU leaders to avoid debates on Romania based on misinformation

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said she wants a much better relationship with the leaders of the EU institutions, a "fair and transparent" one, where the information is taken from the Government so that to avoid the debates in the European Parliament on Romania's problems based on "misinformation" made by some Romanians in Brussels, mentioning Monica Macovei in the context.

"On Tuesday and on Wednesday I will be in Brussels, I will meet with the President of the European Commission, Mr. Juncker, the President of the Council, Mr. Tusk, the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Tajani, and of course I will have a meeting with the Romanian Commissioner on Regional Policies, Mrs. Corina Cretu. As I have said (...), I want to increase the European dimension of the governing and I think this is the first step. I want a much better relationship with the leaders of the European institutions, because we are waiting for an important period for the European Union , we are expecting an important period for Romania, the Presidency of the European Union, and I think it is very good for us to be able to sit at the table when talking about the future of Europe, when important European policies are outlined and I mean the cohesion policy and the common agricultural policy that is so important for Romania," Viorica Dancila said on Thursday on Antena 3 when asked about her visit next week in Brussels.

The prime minister added that she aims at another approach with European leaders. "A correct and transparent approach, in which information is taken from the Government and to avoid misinformation that has created so much dissatisfaction, I say on my part, on Romanians' part, so that Romania and the problems that exist in Romania will no longer be discussed in the plenum of the European Parliament, based on the misinformation which, unfortunately, the Romanians do for Romania," Dancila said.

Asked who the Romanians are misinforming at EU level, the premier said: "I know the Romanians in Brussels, but I do not exclude some Romanians also from the country".

"We know how much wrong Mrs. Monica Macovei has done for us for nine years in the European Parliament, I have seen her attitude. This has created a state of sadness for us, because problems may be in many countries, each country has its problems but they also solve them internally, you do not come to tell on your own country and demand that it should be judged by another 27 countries in the plenum of the European Parliament. I think that if you are a good Romanian you do not do this. And I have seen good Romanians, my European fellow MEPs who defended Romania in Brussels and have shown the lies and misinformation that have been at the level of the Parliament at the level of the Commission. I deeply congratulated Dan Nica, Puiu Pascu, Norica Nicolai, Victor Bostinaru, Maria Grapini, all the other colleagues who wanted to show the reality. For two minutes I put myself in their place and I thought I had done the same thing for years. And every time, I thought it would be the last time, but unfortunately this was not over. I want to have another approach so that European leaders are properly informed and what we have seen so far no longer repeats," said Dancila.AGERPRES(RO - author: Daniel Florea, editor: Antonia Nita; EN - author: Bogdan Gabaroi, editor: Simona Iacob)