Marcel Ciolacu, about the energy crisis in Romania: "It is a crisis of embarrassment, that is what it is. We have reached the point of selling energy at a loss, for Bulgarian investors to store it, to sell it back to us ten times more expensive."

The President of the Buzău County Council, Marcel Ciolacu, launched a very harsh attack on Tuesday regarding the way the current situation in the national energy system is being managed. Asked whether Romania is going through an energy crisis, Ciolacu responded firmly that, in his opinion, it is a "crisis of absurdity." 

"We are saving in general. I, you at home… It is a crisis of absurdity, that is it. We have reached the point of selling energy at negative prices, for Bulgarian investors to store it, sell it back to us ten times more expensive, and make profits of about six million a day. They have a good business. It seems to me to be an extraordinary absurdity. It feels like we have lived through this movie before during the pandemic. I liked the one with the barges the most," said Marcel Ciolacu at the end of the extraordinary meeting of the Buzău County Council.

The former prime minister also made a surprising reference to Traian Băsescu, after the former president of Romania had criticized, in turn, the chosen solution for the intervention on the Danube. "I saw that President Băsescu, this time, more or less, 'accidentally' agreed with him. For the first time in my life, I agree with him," Ciolacu added.