Romanian opposition MP Radu Miruţă said he has not been cited in any criminal cases linked to the SAFE programme and Rheinmetall. Speaking at a press conference in Targu Jiu, he said he felt no “emotion” about the issue and turned the focus to contract conditions under the EU-linked defence initiative. Miruţă argued that SAFE has changed the approach to how Arm y funds are spent, saying the programme succeeded in showing that production can be conditioned in Romania. He criticised the previous PSD government’s stance, saying it tried to avoid mandatory factory relocation costs by allowing deliveries without moving production to Romania. He said the SAFE framework replaced that “smile” with stricter conditions in the contracts, including “serious” localization requirements in Romania for the first time. He described the earlier model as requiring proof of spending sums in the country with no direct link to a specific factory. Miruţă also claimed that, under the older approach, importing goods such as a truckload of tomatoes or pasta could be counted toward meeting localization obligations for the weapons sector, even though it was not tied to factory production. He added that at the European level, SAFE still has 21 billion euros available and urged PSD to demonstrate it can keep drawing on those funds. Latest status: Miruţă said he has not been cited in any penal dossier tied to SAFE and Rheinmetall.