“Is this stupidity or treason?” – Romanian politician about doubling the transit of Ukrainian grain
“What Romania is doing in relation to Ukrainian grain is either stupidity or treason.” Thus, quoting verbatim the Russian pre-revolutionary figure Pavel Milyukov, the leader of the right-wing Romanian party “AUR” George Simion described Bucharest’s policy regarding grain from Ukraine during a speech at the summer university “Izvoru Muresului”.
This was reported by News.ro, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to the politician, while Romania's neighboring countries stop importing Ukrainian grain, Romania is doubling it.
“Victor Ponta, as economic adviser to the Prime Minister, could well have advised the Prime Minister to ask for something in return, at least to double grain quotas. This is some kind of dream of the mind! For example, I cannot imagine: either you are a fool or you are a traitor if you do something like that.
All countries close to us - Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland - stop importing Ukrainian grain, you double it. Do you have the infrastructure? You don’t have one, at least a port one, and you don’t receive investments. At least develop your infrastructure: railways, ports, and so on. That is, to take advantage of the opportunity to develop Romania as well,” said George Simion.
The leader of the Romanian far right also criticized the Romanian leadership for not fighting for Romanian cultural values in the face of other states, in particular Albania and Ukraine, despite their friendly relations with the leaders of these countries. In particular, we are talking about the house of the Romanian writer Nicolae Iorga in the Albanian Saranda, which he bequeathed to the Romanian state, as well as the house of the Romanian writer Aron Pumnul in the Ukrainian Chernivtsi.
Prime Minister of Romania Marcel Ciolaku announced during a joint briefing with the head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Denis Shmygal that Romania plans to double the volume of grain transit through Romania from the current 2 million tons per month to 4 million tons in the near future. per month.
“Almost 60% of the total volume of grain exports from Ukraine currently transits through Romania,” Ciolaku emphasized.
"Is this stupidity or treason?" – Romanian politician on doubling Ukrainian grain transit