EXCLUSIVE: Censorship, manipulations and lies. „The Secretary of State is discrediting himself!”
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(Photo: Then Environment minister Tzancos Barna, Scretary of State Sorin Ionut Banciu and their team in a closed-doors “techncal meeting” with a European Parliament PETI delegation in Bucharest, Romania, May 15 2023)
Just days ago, a European Parliament Petition (PETI) delegation visited Romania, following an illegal logging complaint.
Something bewildering occured: the PETI delegation expressly requested that journalists be kept at arm’s length, as the meeting was not, allegedly, in the public interest.
Delegates chose a carefully-drafted and press-proofed route to witness that “everything was under control” in Romania’s forests, as Environment Minister Barna Tánczos would tell them.
After PETI’s “technical meeting” behind closed doors with minister Tánczos and his team, we caught up with State Secretary Ionuț-Sorin Banciu for an exclusive briefing – since he was allowed to sit in the meeting
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LORDS OF TIMBER is a project supported by an IJ4EU grant for independent reporting, managed by the European Journalism Centre and the International Press Institute. This is one article in a series exposing aspects tied to EU’s “famous” “environmental” infringement.