Like the German social Democrats to RUB salt in the wounds of the European people’s party (EPP) – for example, when you accuse the party family of the CDU and CSU for being too lenient with anti-liberal and autocratic tendencies of the Fidesz party of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The Enjoyed also have a child in your EU family of socialists and social Democrats, namely the Romanian Partidul Social Democrat (PSD), whose government currently holds the EU presidency. In the criticism, because it does not tolerate corruption, and with a mitigation of the criminal law of corruption suspect politicians want to protect, including the PSD chief, Liviu Dragnea. Sentenced in the first instance for abuse of office.

On Thursday of this week the Problem of the social Democrats, with their Romanian party of friends a bit larger. Namely, since the EU Commission criticized a criminal complaint, which was received by the Romanian authorities. Refunded you had a company that regularly criticized the actions of the judiciary against Romanian politicians. The display, due to the formation of a “criminal Association” aimed, among other things, the Vice-President of the EU Commission, Frans Timmermans. The low countries want to make the European socialists (PES) this weekend in Madrid to your top candidate for the European elections. Pikant: The display has been redirected to a new special unit of the Romanian Prosecutor’s office, which is criticized by Brussels, because the government has withdrawn them by Ordinance, the control of the attorney-General.

SPD-Europe-top-candidate Katarina Barley value attaches to the fact that Orban’s Fidesz party is more dangerous than the Romanian PSD. The corruption allegations and the handling of it were “terrible,” she said in the Germany radio. But it’s a piece of want to do”, of course, far otherwise, than if you lay the axe to the basic values of the European Union” and the EU as a whole wants to change, “such as the Orban and Poland”. In addition, the social Democrats have Enjoyed your Romanian already threatened consequences: “Frans Timmermans is very, very clear on the point, and he has already announced, if the behavior of the Romanian colleagues continues, that the exclusion from the social-democratic group.”

Barleys Co-top candidate Udo Bullmann told the daily mirror: “We expect that the Romanian government respects European law and implemented.” It is unclear whether the complaints against the EU commissioners are not allowed at all. The social-democratic group in the European Parliament (EP) calls for a debate to Romania in October, Resolution in November, prompted and supported, says bull man is the head of her. The group expect to Bucharest implementing the recommendations of the EU Commission and the Venice Commission in order to guarantee the rule of law and European values. You have pointed out, Romania’s Minister-President Viorica Dancila during their visit in the group. Also in the EP debate on the start of the Romanian presidency, the social Democrats had emphasised that “the rule of law and the defence of citizens’ rights in each member state, regardless of who forms the government, at any time”. Unlike Timmermans, bull man in the PSD non-threatened but with a disclaimer.

The SPD, the Bundestag, Detlef Müller, the Chairman of the parliamentary friendship group “Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania”, is far harder with the Romanian Comrades. He was of the opinion that the PSD “is not a sister party,” he said in November, the German wave. “When you look at what the policy is of the PSD, specifically, anti-minority, homophobic, actually, also anti-European, then, we see that we are in relation to our basic values on a common Basis”. A disclaimer does not want to take in the view: “That would be a very categorical step”, he said: “members of the family you encounter is not so easy.” Müller wished to see in the interview that the Executive Board of the SPD “positions.”

Liberal and Union’s take the SPD so as to be harder in the duty. “The Romanian social-Democrats are under the control of the convicted election cheater Liviu Dragnea, who wants to sabotage for a long time, the Anti-corruption measures in the country”, – said the Deputy head of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, of this newspaper: “The German SPD must not pass over in silence.” Of your top candidate Katarina Barley had been to hear nothing, criticised the Liberal, “you should know as a Minister of justice, but the importance of trust in the rule of law.”

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Similar to hart, the German MEP Inge Gräßle (CDU) says. “The Silence of the SPD to the hair-raising operations in Romania shows that it is the rule of law and European values, but always with a party-political criticism,” she said.: “Party all must have enjoyed with her and thus she makes herself and her criticism of the other party about Hungary and the Orban, or to Poland’s credibility.” It was “high time that the SPD decreases, the Blinder of your left eye”. To display against members of the EU-Commission Gräßle said: “What Romania is doing with Timmermans, has yet dared not yet an EU member state. This is absolutely unacceptable; also, to protect the first instance sentenced the fraudulent Parliament, the President Dragnea and to help the ousted Anti-corruption investigator with this.”