Prime Minister: I Will Not Allow Ambassadors of Foreign States to Set My Agenda

The Romanian PM also said that she reached out for individual discussions with each ambassador, but was rejected in her approached.

“I want to remind the ambassadors that we are in Romania. There is not state where ambassadors set the prime minister’s agenda and I will not allow this. They must show respect for Romania, just as a Romanian ambassador shows respect for another state,” the prime minister said at the beginning of Wednesday’s cabinet meeting.

The embassies of a dozen states issued a common public message earlier in the day voicing their concern for the integrity of Romania’s justice system and called on the country’s government to refrain from passing amendments which could weaken its rule of law and capacity to fight crime or corruption.

The message was signed in the name of Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United States, all allies of Romania either in the EU or NATO.

“We, the international partners and allies of Romania, call on all parties involved in drafting government emergency decrees which can modify judicial legislation to abstain from amendments which would weaken the rule of law and Romania’s capability to fight against crime or corruption,” reads the message.

The representatives of the twelve states continue by saying that their official dialogue requests on the subject were left unanswered since January, and also criticized judicial measurers taken by authorities in Bucharest in the past several months.

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