Political divisions and rifts are becoming more acute as Romania prepares to take over the EU presidency.
Romanian officials slammed the European Union for treating their country as “second-rate,” while Bucharest prepares to take over the EU’s rotating presidency, a report by the Associated Press said Monday.
Mihai Fifor, a Romanian Social Democrat leader, criticized EU officials, including current European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, for their remarks about Romania.
“Romania is under special [EU] monitoring. Romania is treated like a second-rate nation by some EU officials,” Fifor wrote Sunday, adding that Romania “will no longer take being scolded or sanctioned for things that happen everywhere in Europe.”
Romania is under special monitoring over long-time charges of corruption and concerns about the rule of law, the AP report says.
