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By Aurélie CASSOU, ABBL ALFI Senior Adviser, European Affairs
On first January 2019, Romania took on its first presidency of the Council since it joined the EU in 2007. And one must admit it is not an easy task that Romania is facing. Amongst other pressing issues, Romania has to deal with Brexit, the European Parliament elections, discussions on who will get the top jobs (President of the Commission, ECB, etc.), the strategy for the EU in the next political mandate (Sibiu summit in spring).
On top of this heavy agenda, Romanians have to deal with the interinstitutional pressure of handling the backlog of proposals of this current mandates (i.e. the five years term that the European Parliament and Commissioners are serving until the...
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