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The National Integrity Agency is an institution whose establishment and operationalizing has been assumed by Romania in the process of negotiation for accession to the European Union, in order to solve the problems of incompatibility, conflicts of interests and unjustified wealth among public servants and dignitaries. Once Romania joined the EU, in 2007, in order to monitor the fulfillment of the most important commitments of our country, including those related to the above mentioned Agency, the European Commission has set up a mechanism for cooperation and verification (CVM), for conformity and evolution status checking. Through it, the evolution is analyzed and, in this regard, periodic reports on progress are published. The Agency's whole evolution has been based on CVM since its inception; due to its pressures, recommendations and alarm signals, the institution has been set up, has become operational and has constantly tried to respond to the challenges and aggression that have come from the political representatives. However, in recent years, especially after Croatia's accession to the EU, which has not been subject to such monitoring, there is an increasing phenomenon of CVM disproof in our country, considering that its elimination is urgent and more than necessary; the reason for this attitude is determined by the selective use of such a mechanism only for Romania and Bulgaria, and not uniformly at the level of all the Member States or, at least, imposed as a condition for the newest states accepted in the EU. Considering the situation of the CVM elimination, which seems to be predictable in the near future, we ask ourselves what will happen to the National Integrity Agency in its absence. An exercise of imagination and a little anticipation lead us to several possible scenarios: 1) the Agency will continue its course according to the progress made so far; 2) it will be discredited, and the political factor will try to eliminate it given the lack of an external pressure and control mechanism – this will affect its efficiency and effectiveness; 3) the Agency will disappear. In this article, all these hypothetical perspectives will be examined one by one, to conclude the feasibility of each of them. |
