Romania will back Nato’s increased spending goal even as it starts to cut its own record public deficit, new president-elect Nicușor Dan has said, seeking to reassure foreign partners and investors about his country’s pro-western orientation.
Dan’s election victory on Sunday capped six months of political and economic turmoil prompted by a presidential election being cancelled because of alleged Russian meddling.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Dan said his country had made a clear choice as an EU and Nato member and committed Ukraine ally by voting him into office and not his anti-Ukrainian, Eurosceptic rival George Simion, who had topped the first-round vote.