Iulian Fota, former presidential advisor: "I saw that some ambassador ranks were given. If I shake that list, beautiful things won't come out! Let them tell us if only friends matter in this country."

"Sir, we have two ambassadors, people who have held important positions in the Romanian state, indeed very important: Sorin Ducaru and Mihnea Motoc, who are just hanging around in Brussels. Probably the salaries are good, nothing to say about that, but they do not have high-responsibility positions there, even though they are people with a lot of competence! Why not send, for example, Sorin Ducaru as ambassador to Spain, where we currently have no ambassador and where Sorin knows all the Spanish elite? So, Sorin Ducaru would be perfect for that position! I have seen that some ambassador ranks have been given recently. I don't want to be mean, but if I get into that list and shake it a bit, not very nice things will come to the surface! I mean, let us be told if only friends matter in this country, so we know a bit what we have to do! So the problem of the state is that it has human resources, but it does not know how to use them for all sorts of reasons." declared in an interview for News.ro, Iulian Fota, former presidential advisor