WikiLeaks reveals national “stupidity”

Published on 1 April 2011 at 11:34

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"Country shows its true colours in WikiLeaks!" headlines Revista 22, as revelations about the hidden side of American-Romanian relations reach Bucharest. What with "the saga of Mircea Geoana" — the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and current President of the Senate, who considers himself to be "the best politician" in the country and who "uses a Romanian business magnate’s private jet to travel to Moscow" — and the files implicating Adrian Nastase (PSD) in a corruption scandal, the "cablegate on the Dâmboviţa" [the river running through Bucharest] "paints a savage portrait and leaves a bitter taste," affirms the Bucharest weekly. "What a shower! What stupidity! What corruption! The real Romania is a state that has been divided up by a handful of oligarchs who control banking and the media, and politicians for whom the national interest is no more than a bargaining chip!"

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