Yes, Romania is an EU member state. And yes, these are Social Democrats and Liberals, both considered excessively corrupt, members respectively of the social democratic Party of European Socialists and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe fractions. And no, the president, Klaus Iohannis. is neither ill-liberal nor a neo-fascist, but rather moderate. Welcome to the world of the EU political elite.
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