PM Dancila in EP: CVM reports don't mention intelligence service and justice institutions protocols

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila told the European Parliament on Wednesday that in the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) reports she hadn't seen anything about breeching the human rights and the secret protocols between the intelligence services and the justice institutions in Romania. 

"It is legitimate to ask how did the CVM defend the Romanian citizens from the serious violation of their rights. The CVM reports spoke a lot about institutions, magistrates appointments, the fight against corruption. It is very well. But I haven't seen anything about human rights breeching, the secret protocols between the intelligence services and the justice institutions," Dancila told the debate in the European Parliament on Romania. 

According to the PM, based on this protocols "millions of Romanians were monitored by the intelligence services in the name of the fight against corruption." 

"The are court decisions showing how evidence was forged, how the transcripts of some wiretaps were modified to create accountabilities or how witnesses were blackmailed in order to falsely testify. None of these things are in the CVM reports. (...) This means, in other words, that this mechanism failed its mission for which it was created," the PM said. 

At the same time, Dancila asked to be told who drew up the CVM reports and omitted "these unconceivable realities" in the EU. 

"I am officially asking to be told who drew up the CVM reports, who supplied the data and omitted, out of carelessness or out of ill-faith, these unconceivable realities in the European Union. If we are honest, we need to start from these serious abuses, because they are taking place on the territory of the European Union," Dancila also said.