Nastase sends commitment list to Prodi

PM Adrian Nastase on Tuesday sent to the European Commission chairman Romano Prodi a letter detailing the supplementary commitments of the Government to be fulfilled until the actual publication of the country report, Interim Integration minister Vasile Puscas said. “It is not about requests from abroad, but about informing the European Commission on the measures the Cabinet is to take soon,” Puscas said. PM Adrian Nastase in Brussels last week announced the Government would present the European Commission a list of 3 or 4 measures to be turned into effect by the time the annual country report on Romania was published. One of those measures was finding a way to curb the arrears in the economy. Finance Minister Mihai Tanasescu says the other three supplementary commitments are completing the privatisation of Siderurgica Hunedoara, endorsing the S&R budgets for the national companies and passing the 2004 state budget. Inquired whether the commitments were likely to make a positive impact on the country report on Romania, which the European Commission is about to complete, Vasile Puscas said all those steps would be considered proof of the Government’s capability and credibility to see its commitments through. ZF