Eugen TOMAC

What Eugen TOMAC has said (3)

• 2025-06-06 “E-2293/25 Answer given by Mr Dombrovskis on behalf of the European Commission The adoption of the euro is a requirement of EU membership. The euro adoption date cannot be pre-determined as it depends on the fulfilment of all convergence conditions as set out in Art. 140(1) of Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The process depends on respect of those conditions and no timetable is prescribed. To adopt the euro, Member States need to comply with the convergence criteria. In its 2024 Convergence Report, the Commission concluded that Romania fulfilled none of the four convergence criteria, namely price stability, sustainable government financial position, exchange rate stability within the Exchange Rate Mechanism II and convergence in long-term interest rates. Legislation in Romania regarding the central bank was not fully compatible with EU law. As a result, the conditions for euro adoption were not met. The country report for Romania 1 , issued in the context of the 2025 European Semester Spring Package, provides a detailed assessment of Romania’s challenges in the fiscal, macroeconomic, social and structural policy areas. Addressing these challenges and the respective country-specific recommendations, while implementing its recovery and resilience plan and using other EU funds, would support Romania’s economic convergence and prospects for euro adoption. 1 https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/publications/2025-european-semester-country-reports_en.”
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• 2024-07-17 “– Doamnă președintă, mă bucur că după ce au fost învestite persoanele care vor conduce Parlamentul European, prima rezoluție este cea cu privire la Ucraina. În ultimii ani, în Parlament am dat semnalul solidarității cu poporul ucrainean și este extrem de important să menținem această linie, de a lupta pentru democrație, pentru libertate și a-i susține pe cei care apără astăzi cu mult curaj propria țară, dar și Europa. Putin trebuie să știe că niciun dictator, niciodată, nu a reușit să învingă voința oamenilor de a lupta pentru libertate. Locul lui Putin este la Haga și pentru asta trebuie să luptăm mai departe.”
• “Thank you. President. Commissioner. Colleagues, a few years ago we discussed threats. Today we are discussing actual foreign interference, large scale disinformation used against us in Romania. The manipulation of algorithms and bots that manipulate networks is something which is proven in the Republic of Moldova. Russia's hybrid repression and disinformation campaigns were meant to deviate Moldova from its democracy path and European course. This doesn't stop at the border, which which is why I believe that this European democracy shield is a necessary step, but if we want it to be credible, we need to enforce it properly. So it is time now to take the next step and to create a position of commissioner in the future, a commissioner to fight against disinformation, because we need much stronger tools to fight disinformation and foreign interference from.”
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