Ellen Tauscher (US Congress Representative), Craig Kennedy (GMFUS President), Traian Basescu (President of Romania)
The opening session of the GMF Bucharest Conference was a collection of keynote addresses, delivered firstly by Romania’s President, Mr. Traian Basescu and then by US Congreswoman Ellen Tauscher.
Basescu did nothing extraordinarly special. His speech was far from being as coherent, bold and charming as his open interventions, which is a pity. I trully wish people who can be great speakers by nature would continue to use these skills even in the most official contexts, when theoretically some other protocol rules apply (which, by the way, I do not consider to be the case). Secondly, the main ideas President Basescu put forward were the great support given by Romania to Georgia and Ukraine’s integration in the Membership Action Plan (we all now by now that this has failed), and also Romania’s interest in clear-cut mechanisms for the functioning of the anti-missile shield. Continue reading ‘Basescu & Tauscher: Serving your constituency…’