Barking dogs

According to the daily Evenimentul Zilei the warning to Romania will do no good. The European Commission's judicial report "follows the typical pattern of hypocritical behaviour of Brussels' wavering bureaucrats, who under political pressure have undermined their own report. The warning that Romania's integration into the Schengen area and the Eurozone could be postponed disappeared overnight from the report, presumably at the request of Bucharest's lobbyists. The EU commissioners have shown Romanian politicians that they can bark but lack the courage to bite. A contrived phrase that found its way into an unreadable passage in the report explains that without efficient controls we could one day end up like the Bulgarians: without full access to structural funding. So what? The clients who with political blessing had access to the funding did not even manage to spend all the money on offer from the European Samaritans. The real problem is we cannot steal as much as they are offering us. ... Instead of using the whip good old President Barroso has offered Rumania's corrupt politicians a sugar cube and asked them to be sensible."

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