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Can you show me where the EU disclose its compaign financing for the romanian presidential election? They've certainly been putting the finger down in the scale

by jdasdf 2y ago

Can you show me where the EU disclose its compaign financing for the romanian presidential election? They've certainly been putting the finger down in the scales far more than the russians

Almondsetat 2y ago
The Romanian court had evidence of Russia putting the finger down and breaking the rules. You, on the other hand, are just accusing.
- jdasdf 2y ago
  Oh? Is there some dispute that did EU called Tik Tok about these elections? https://apnews.com/article/romania-tiktok-elections-european-union-4b5e5c544a1d20da838e7502d46bc8f7 https://apnews.com/article/romania-tiktok-elections-european... If Russia had called them in for not blocking or censoring pro-EU candidates would you not have called that election interference?
cbg0 2y ago
The EU don't have to disclose something like that, as Romania has a central authority that handles this stuff, as per the law: > The collection of electoral contributions and the payment of electoral expenses may be made only through bank accounts notified in advance to the Permanent Electoral Authority. The EU is not involved in directly financing candidates or political parties in Romania, they've already given us tens of billions of dollars to develop our country.
- jdasdf 2y ago
  >The EU is not involved in directly financing candidates or political parties in Romania, they've already given us tens of billions of dollars to develop our country. Wow, seems like they're spent tens of billions of dollars in long term election interference campaigns. Are we going to see the politicians elected going to jail over it?
  - cbg0 2y ago
    Your facetious comment doesn't really add anything to the conversation, this isn't Reddit.
  - avianlyric 2y ago
    Tens of billions of dollars of development funding, which Romania obviously wanted, given they went through the trouble of joining the EU, and then went through the trouble of getting hold of the EU cash and spending it. Not quite the same as external party spending huge amounts of cash running political campaigns, while ignoring all the local rules about campaigning. After all Romania didn’t have to accept the EU cash, or spent it. The EU doesn’t force countries to join, just so they can give them billions of euros in the hopes of interfering in a political process years later. A political process that’s only important, because of the development funding. Much easier and cheaper to simpler not get involved, and allow those countries to struggle alone.

by jdasdf 2y ago

Can you show me where the EU disclose its compaign financing for the romanian presidential election? They've certainly been putting the finger down in the scales far more than the russians

Almondsetat 2y ago

The Romanian court had evidence of Russia putting the finger down and breaking the rules. You, on the other hand, are just accusing.

jdasdf 2y ago
Oh? Is there some dispute that did EU called Tik Tok about these elections? https://apnews.com/article/romania-tiktok-elections-european-union-4b5e5c544a1d20da838e7502d46bc8f7 https://apnews.com/article/romania-tiktok-elections-european... If Russia had called them in for not blocking or censoring pro-EU candidates would you not have called that election interference?

cbg0 2y ago

The EU don't have to disclose something like that, as Romania has a central authority that handles this stuff, as per the law: > The collection of electoral contributions and the payment of electoral expenses may be made only through bank accounts notified in advance to the Permanent Electoral Authority. The EU is not involved in directly financing candidates or political parties in Romania, they've already given us tens of billions of dollars to develop our country.

jdasdf 2y ago
>The EU is not involved in directly financing candidates or political parties in Romania, they've already given us tens of billions of dollars to develop our country. Wow, seems like they're spent tens of billions of dollars in long term election interference campaigns. Are we going to see the politicians elected going to jail over it?
- cbg0 2y ago
  Your facetious comment doesn't really add anything to the conversation, this isn't Reddit.
- avianlyric 2y ago
  Tens of billions of dollars of development funding, which Romania obviously wanted, given they went through the trouble of joining the EU, and then went through the trouble of getting hold of the EU cash and spending it. Not quite the same as external party spending huge amounts of cash running political campaigns, while ignoring all the local rules about campaigning. After all Romania didn’t have to accept the EU cash, or spent it. The EU doesn’t force countries to join, just so they can give them billions of euros in the hopes of interfering in a political process years later. A political process that’s only important, because of the development funding. Much easier and cheaper to simpler not get involved, and allow those countries to struggle alone.