Today's visit of Sorin Grindeanu to Brussels goes beyond the primitive forms of the Dambovița tupe practiced by the pesedists. She is an insult!
The socialist (sic!) who can no longer take care of 'the many', while allowing himself to be driven around in the private planes of some swindlers, comes to Brussels to convey that he wants the change of Ilie Bolojan from the position of prime minister.
In other words, the politician associated with one of the most shameful attacks on the rule of law in post-December Romania comes here to seek external validation, while at home he is preparing the overthrow of the government which, anyway, he undermines from day one, with catastrophic effects for all Romanians! It is insolence in its purest form.
We are talking, dear friends, about a beautification exercise, done with a workmanlike serenity, that defies both our memory and our intelligence. This is because Sorin Grindeanu does not come to Brussels as any politician. He comes here carrying a heavy and very shameful imprint on his back that even his socialists have not forgotten, and they have no way, because at that time they no longer knew how to dissociate themselves from him and his political patron, the sinister Dragnea.
I'm talking about the year 2017. Ordinance 13. The night the rule of law was attacked with leverage. The night when Dragnea, Grindeanu and PSD thought they could seize justice secretly, while the Romanians were sleeping.
Only the Romanians did not sleep. They took to the streets, by the hundreds of thousands, and told everyone, the whole of Europe, that Romania is no one's property.
Along with the hundreds of thousands of Romanians who went out to protest, Europe saw and understood. The European Parliament, you will recall, did not treat that episode as a local, Balkan slum squabble that concerns no one. On the contrary. At the beginning of 2017, the European Parliament requested and approved a plenary debate on democracy and justice in Romania, a discussion in LIBE and even a documenting mission in Romania. That is the reality. Moreover, what started with GEO 13 was not seen at the European level as an isolated accident, but as the beginning of a drift. The changes in justice and criminal legislation in Romania, imposed by Grindeanu's government, risked undermining the separation of powers and the anti-corruption fight. The European Parliament demanded then, very firmly, the countering of any measures that would decriminalize corruption in public office.
And this morning, March 26, 2026, Sorin Grindeanu has a scheduled meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.
Metsola is one of the people who, in 2017 and 2018, energetically defended the rule of law in Romania when the Grindeanu government trampled on it. Roberta Metsola is the one who said that Romanians are no less European than the rest of the citizens of the member states and told those who came out to the protests: We hear you!
But Roberta Metsola then also said something much more serious for those who are trying to rewrite history today. He said that the European Parliament has a responsibility and a duty to act on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of Romanians on the streets for democracy, justice and the rule of law, while the government in Bucharest was trying to annihilate the fight against corruption. He said pretending it's all just an internal issue is the excuse of unscrupulous politicians trying to justify the unacceptable.
One of those politicians was, first of all, Sorin Grindeanu!
Do you think Metsola, or anyone, has forgotten?
So what is this visit really about?
About hypocrisy. About the short memory of some and the impudence of others. About PSD's rude attempt to present itself in Brussels in respectable, European, institutional clothes, as if OUG 13 was a small misunderstanding and not a brutal attack on justice and the idea that the law must be above the powerful. The pesedists are simply trying a new trick. With the toupe specific to the borfaş. Grindeanu, who led in 2017 a government perceived in Europe as an instrument of a serious slippage against justice, is coming here today to seek respectability in front of those who said then that the European Union cannot turn a blind eye. Don't you think it's obscene?
The problem is not that Grindeanu is coming to Brussels. The problem is that he comes here as if the past doesn't exist. As if OUG 13 does not stick to its name. As if the huge protests in Romania didn't exist. As if Europe's voice at that moment was just background noise (and to him, it almost certainly was!). After defeating an attempt to mutilate the rule of law, Grindeanu comes to pose as a partner of democratic stability.
Well, that can't be done!
You can't ask for respect, just you, who made Romania a shame in Europe. You can't claim credibility when your signature is tied to one of the most toxic bailouts of the corrupt in the last 35 years. And you can't pose as a statesman when history remembers you as the prime minister of an ordinance that was one step away from taking us out of Europe.
And there is something else. Grindeanu is trying to build an aura of frequent, European and responsible interlocutor in Brussels, while at home PSD is working to change Ilie Bolojan. That is clearly the key moment. We do not see a leader who comes to seriously strengthen Romania's European profile, but a politician who tries to borrow external credibility for internal games. And when this politician is the prime minister of the infamous OUG 13, the contrast becomes truly revolting. Really gross.
But Europe has not forgotten and Romanians should not forget either.
When hundreds of thousands of them took to the streets with the flags of Romania and the European Union, they did it to defend the idea that this country should not be handed over to politicians who change laws overnight to get rid of the powerful. Roberta Metsola and other MEPs understood this perfectly then.
Today, Sorin Grindeanu can enter high offices in Brussels. He can give his signature grin and shake hands. It's protocol. But it cannot erase the truth.
And the truth is that the man who comes today to seek European legitimacy is the same one who, in 2017, made Romania the shame of Europe.
This is never forgotten and can never be washed away.
