Of the 25 Emergency Ordinances adopted by the Orban Government on the night of 4 February, no fewer than 5 of them were announced that they were in the field of European funds.

After keeping them hidden from the eyes of the press and public opinion, Ludovic Orban decided to withdraw them at the last second of publication in the Official Gazette for fear of the illegalities that would have generated a major scandal." With emergency ordinances in the field of European funds, the Orban Government has sought some illegalities. First, not only did the documents not go through the legal transparency procedure before adoption, but neither the press nor public opinion have seen the text of these OUG, which leads to suspicion that they were not completed at the cabinet meeting last Tuesday, but continued to work on them even this week. The fact that they have given up on them today demonstrates the amateurism with which the work was worked and the illegalities that would have generated a scandal including on the European level", says Roxana Mînzatu, PSD deputy and former Minister of European Funds.Officially, prime minister Ludovic Orban claims to have renounced the publication of the five Emergency Ordinances because of "the farts who want to harm Romania". However, this statement incriminates the current prime minister, and that is because if the five Emergency Ordinances had been legal, there would have been no reason for their withdrawal." The situation is simple. If the Emergency Ordinances in the field of European funds were legal, the NLP would not have withdrawn them. When they finally chose to sponge them off, because they removed from the Website of the Ministry of European Funds the only document referring to them, a press release in which the five Ordinances were talked about, they only self-incriminate. This black and white with the alleged ordinances for which Minister Boloş did not make public consultation creates chaos and uncertainty, because we are talking about laws that would have effects for at least the next 10 years, if I am referring only to the decentralisation of the POR. Regional Operational Programme), a proposal that I have launched, in my mandate as Minister of European Funds, and which the Liberals are now compromising, step by step. The very withdrawal of the ordinances is in question, with Prime Minister Orban dismissed from February 5th and not having the right to adopt and thus withdraw ordinances," adds Roxana Mînzatu.The Emergency Ordinancescandal is not the only way to the NLP which deals damage to Romania in the field of European funds. From October 2019 until today President Iohannis is fulfilling his ambition after ambition, tearing down psd governments and now the PNL in the summer to hold early elections. In all these months Romania is and will be led by interim governments, without a mandate to negotiate with the European Commission the operational programmes 2021-2027. In the absence of a constant, legitimate government, Romania cannot hope to achieve the maximum of these negotiations which are difficult anyway when the European post-Brexit budget is still not agreed and approved in Brussels today and the European Green Pact assumed by The European Commission generates new conditionalities and limitations for the types of investments that will be eligible.' Romania is a country with an investment need in the field of infrastructure that is much higher than the European resources available. For example, we need EUR 35 billion to complete the motorway network, rail corridors and metro sections in the capital. According to an EBRD study, we need EUR 9 billion to ensure access to drinking water across the country and 13 billion euros to ensure sewage and wastewater treatment in all localities. 2020 is the crucial and final year for negotiating the programmes, amounts and areas where European money will come from 2021-2027. And, just this year, in which we needed to come before the Commission with an assumed and clear vision for investing in key sectors over the next 10 years, with a coordinated team effort, with the involvement of all state institutions, what is Iohannis doing? He throws the country into crisis and endless interims just to move forward his blind battle with the PSD. These political actions of President Iohannis accompanied by the incompetence and appetite for illegalities of the PNL government do not do well for Romania and will diminish the funding and development opportunities that we must negotiate and achieve through 2021-2027 budget," Mînzatu concluded.