The European Parliament's budgetary-control committee has
rejected Leonard Orban as Romania's new member of the EU's Court of Auditors
over concerns that his appointment could create a conflict of interest.
Ingeborg Grässle, a centre-right German MEP on the
committee, said that pressure was growing on all levels of the EU to unfreeze
EU structural funds for the country. All structural funds have been suspended
over concerns about the lack of accountability systems in Romania and the
levels of corruption in the country.
Orban, a former European commissioner for multilingualism,
is currently Europe minister in the government of Victor Ponta, Romania's
centre-left prime minister. Ponta's campaign to consolidate his power ahead of
a parliamentary election in December has angered many centre-right politicians
in Europe.
Orban is a non-party technocrat and also served as Europe
minister in Romania's previous, centre-right government.
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