France, Nov. 27 -- RFI: How does Romania's role as a NATO eastern flank hub affect its stance in the European Union budget debate?
Claudiu Nasui: It is in our interest that more funds are allocated towards defence because we're on the border, and we are the second biggest beneficiary of this new SAFE defence loan programme, after Poland. So we're set to receive a considerable amount of money from the EU to rearm ourselves.
The main problem we have is that we're not necessarily buying European equipment, which is very unfortunate and something we really should be doing.
Europe, and the European Union, have a significant technology gap in military technology compared to the United States. This is partly because we don't have the same econo...