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20 Years of EU – Vasile Puscaş, Chief Negotiator with EU: Romania Has Yielded About 20%-30% of the Opportunities and Opportunities Generated by Accession.

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Vasile Puscaş, the chief negotiator of Romania with the European Union from 2000-2004, recalls in an interview for News.ro, two decades after Romania's accession to the EU, the tense moments of negotiations and makes a critical X-ray of how Romania used the opportunities offered by the status of Member State. He talks about the moment when negotiations were in danger of being frozen, about the opposition of Holland and Finland, about the euro ar…

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Vasile Puscaş, the chief negotiator of Romania with the European Union from 2000-2004, recalls in an interview for News.ro, two decades after Romania's accession to the EU, the tense moments of negotiations and makes a critical X-ray of how Romania used the opportunities offered by the status of Member State. He talks about the moment when negotiations were in danger of being frozen, about the opposition of Holland and Finland, about the euro ar…

Vasile Puscaş, the chief negotiator of Romania with the European Union from 2000-2004, recalls in an interview for News.ro, two decades after Romania's accession to the EU, the tense moments of negotiations and makes a critical X-ray of how Romania used the opportunities offered by the status of Member State. He talks about the moment when negotiations were in danger of being frozen, about the opposition of Holland and Finland, about the euro ar…

According to him, for a long time they were primarily thinking about how to bring EU funds to Romania, and not about how they could use them for development.

Romania has only taken advantage of around 20–30% of the opportunities offered by accession to the European Union, estimates Vasile Puscaș, the former chief negotiator of Romania with the EU. He believes that the country has made modest progress in the process of European integration and criticises the lack of a development strategy, how European money was used and how ... The post Former chief negotiator Vasile Puscaș, a hard balance to 20 year…

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News.ro broke the news on Saturday, October 10, 2026.
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