Romania’s President of Chamber of Deputies and PSD leader: It’s time for Austria to expect Romania to use its veto rights, oppose everything, without properly justifying it

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1. DeepL translation:

   Marcel Ciolacu, President of the Chamber of Deputies, said that Austria should expect Romania to oppose the veto at European level without justifying it, just as Austria opposed our country’s accession to Schengen in a totally unfair and unjustified way. “You cannot use your veto against a European state that has fulfilled absolutely all the requirements, which is a state with equal rights as you in the EU, to cover up certain internal political problems”, added the PSD leader.

   “There is a break in logic between what we declare, within the EU, and what we do. I think they will have to give certain explanations and face certain consequences at the European level, first of all, where Romania, like Austria, has a veto. Today, for example, Romania has decided not to use its veto against Croatia, because it would have done an injustice, it would have tried to cover up one injustice with another injustice. I am glad that Romania did not do this and did not come up with a veto against Croatia,” said Marcel Ciolacu in a press statement on Thursday.

   Asked whether Romania should exercise the right of veto against Austria, the PSD leader replied, “When a European state, on a recommendation of the European Commission, when all the other European member states have voted in accordance with the EC decision and a European state, unjustifiably, because there is no logical justification for what Austria has done, then it is the case that Austria also expects Romania, with the right of veto, to oppose everything, without justifying such a step.”

   “You cannot use your veto against a European state that has fulfilled absolutely all the requirements, that is an equal state in the EU as you are in terms of rights, in order to cover up certain internal political issues. You can’t put a minor political interest ahead of the European interest, in this respect, when Russia has attacked Ukraine unjustifiably and all European states are going through an energy crisis. You don’t have the right to do that,” Ciolacu added.

2. Very good 👍

3. It’s time to hit back.

4. without remorse, without reason and without simpathy, lex talionis at its best

5. No mercy

6. So they view this veto as an injustice. Irregardless of whether one agrees with that assessment or not, is it not pretty clear that when dealt an injustice, dealing the same many times over, including to other actors, is the worst possible policy?

   Not to mention that a hungarian use of the veto like proposed here would hurt everyone, including Romania itself.

7. This is just step one. If Romania does this, which they rightfully should, we might kill our future chances to join as we destroy our relationship with a voting country. It’s good we do this, but the voting process needs to change and the veto power needs to be replaced with a vote that succeeds if a vast majority vote for so these unjustified, racist and xenophobic temper tantrums do not succeed. We need to focus on bringing these issues to light, not just veto shit cause we can

8. The vetoing process is just the worst

9. I hope Bulgaria joins in

10. I’m reserving my thoughts on this until they actually do it, we’re all too familiar with their talk.

11. we can never please kremlin puppets

12. Damn. I find myself agreeing with the PSD? Hell yeah. It’s time we get loud and make us heard. Romania isn’t a second class country. We ought to stand up for ourselves.

13. It might be better to form a bloc that can leverage Council votes to apply pressure rather than the veto. There are more of those votes, so it is easier to pick and choose items to vote on. Acting there permits a less shotgun approach that won’t disrupt EU functioning as much but could still apply pressure to parties blocking Schengen entrance.