Berceanu: Petrom can wait

PD (Democrat Party) deputy Radu Berceanu, former Industry minister, suggested the Government on Tuesday to postpone Petrom’s privatisation to avoid the privatisation process going wrong. “I suggest you should wait a while instead of going for the wrong privatisation, (…) The wrong company might take over Petrom or there might be a case of wrong country of origin for that wrong company, geographically speaking,” Berceanu said, without revealing any further details. The democrat deputy specified Petrom was not a “problem” for Romania at the moment, considering it was not making one million dollar losses a day as Sidex Galati once did. Berceanu feels it is better to have Petrom’s privatisation “carefully planned” instead of rushing to conduct it and pretend it is an obligation imposed by the World Bank or IMF, which imposed nothing of the sort on Romania. Mediafax