In European Union politics, party loyalties play less of a role than they do at the national level. But affiliation with the left or right can still have an effect in Brussels - as in the current case with Romania.
The view from Brussels is that the quarrel between the country's two political camps is being conducted with rather questionable legal methods. Elmar Brok, a conservative German member of the European Parliament, has criticized Ponta's attempt as a "coup" - while Hannes Swoboda, leader of the Socialists, has rushed to Ponta's defense, complaining that the Brussels debate on Romania was being governed by "party politics."
Read more: In EU, party politics unite and divide | Europe | DW.DE | 19.07.2012
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