Romanian MEP Băsescu’s microphone was cut off in the EP when he was reading the list of European leaders sold to Putin (article and video in Romanian,translation in comments)
Romanian MEP Băsescu’s microphone was cut off in the EP when he was reading the list of European leaders sold to Putin (article and video in Romanian,translation in comments)
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translation:
Former President Traian Basescu read out a list of former European officials who worked for Russia during a debate in the European Parliament on Russia’s influence in the EU bloc. The former president did not have time to finish his speech because the chair cut off his microphone for going over time. Traian Basescu’s list includes former heads of government from Germany, Italy and Finland.
Traian Băsescu, MEP: We have another big problem, the problem of Putin’s reinforcement by EU dignitaries. And here I will list some of the European Union’s prime ministers who have put themselves at Putin’s service after finishing their mandates: Schroder is on everyone’s lips, Matteo Renzi, former Italian prime minister, employed by Russian firm, Christian Kern, former Austrian chancellor, Francois Fillon, former French prime minister, Esko Aho, former Finnish prime minister, Paavo Lipponen, former Finnish prime minister, Karin Kneissl, former Austrian foreign minister, Hans Schelling, former Austrian finance minister, and of course Dominique Strauss Kahn couldn’t be missed. With such people around him and at the top … Rainer Wieland, MEP, head of the sitting: Thank you very much, dear colleague Băsescu. Thank you. Colleague! Colleague! Colleague Traian, keep order!
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time to name some names
Offtopic, the guy who turns off Băsescu the microphone, Rainer Wieland, had his EU office converted into an “ideas laboratory” this year for more than EUR 600k with EU taxpayers’ money.