Romania is a model pupil in the EU dispute

The calls of Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, on the "new EU member states not to make the life of the EU more complicated" remind Rodica Culcer of a much more vicious comment made by French ex-President Jacques Chirac in 2003. Back then, the issue at hand was the participation of EU countries in the Iraq war, and Chirac said the new NATO members should keep their mouths shut. "While Romania couldn't shut up back then, it's now behaving like a model pupil... There is no discussion about either the new EU treaty or the voting system. At least head of state Traian Basescu explained shortly before he left for Brussels,... that he didn't intend to support the positions of either the Poles or the British. But what good does it do us to uncritically adopt the position of the major Western European states? Perhaps we should be a little more eurosceptic, even if it means getting a dressing down from Barroso?"

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