No one interested in Europe's problems

Nine MPs for the Romanian liberal democrats have presented a draught law under which elections would take place on working days in future. The magazine Revista 22 examines the proposal in the context of the European Parliament elections on June 7: "The project is probably not feasible but it shows that those elected by the people have begun to fear voter abstinence. … For Romanians the European Parliament is much further away than the parliament in Bucharest, and even that doesn't warrant postponing elections, according to 60 percent of voters. Despite all the efforts of the European institutions to inform and mobilise, only once did the European Parliament elections manage to attract the attention of the Romanian public: with the controversial candidacy of Elena Băsescu [a model and the 28-year-old daughter of head of state Traian Băsescu] and with the enrolment of Gigi Becali [owner of the Steaua football club] on the Greater Romania Party's list of candidates. No one so far has shown any interest in the European problems as such."

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