





Planned Assistance for Romanian Stock Exchange raises questions about politicians
That would mean most politicians would be fully interested to support the measure expected to be put forward by Finance minister Varujan Vosganian. The minister for the relations with the Parliament, Mihai Voicu, himself a bourse player, says MPs faced with voting an advantage for themselves should refrain from voting, but no law would force them to.
No other EU member states allows PMs to trade on the Stock Exchange. But in Romania there have been two major scandals involving trader-politicians, known as the Patriciu and Verestoy cases.
Among the current MPs known for their former or ongoing trading activities one can count Hungarian Democrat (UDMR) senator Verestoy Attila, Democratic Liberal (PD-L) senator Vasile Blaga, PD-L senator Ionut Popescu, PD-L top official Theodor Stolojan and deputy Cozmin Gusa.