An apparatchik as Romania's foreign minister

Lazar Comanescu has been appointed Romania's new foreign minister. Mircea Marian points out that Comanescu worked for the foreign ministry before the collapse of communism: "Lazar Comanescu's CV sums up his ten-year career in the foreign ministry before the fall of communism in just a few words. No doubt his Securitate file will also have disappeared. We'll be told some pathetic story about anti-communist dissidence as the reason why he didn't work for the ministry between 1982 and 1990. ... Comanescu's appointment as the country's chief diplomat is a defeat for Romanian democracy, because firstly it shows that in seventeen years the parties have been unable to produce a new generation of politicians. And secondly, the president and the prime minister of Romania have one thing in common: they continue to pay tribute to the apparatchiks of the communist regime."

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