Viorica Dăncilă during a plenary session | EP MEP’s assistant trolls Romanian Social Democrat Ileana Grigorescu makes the news after ‘correcting’ Viorica Dăncilă’s email on Romanian protests.

Controversial plans in Romania to decriminalize some corruption cases, which led to mass street protests this week, have found their way into the hallways of the European Parliament.

Romanian MEP Viorica Dăncilă, a member of the ruling Social Democrats, last week emailed her 750 colleagues to explain why concerns about the new laws were unfounded. “We believe it is helpful to know the actual facts in order to correctly interpret the current situation,” said Dăncilă.

Not everyone was convinced.

“You have inspired me to perform a public service myself by making some corrections to your description of the status quo, as I felt that your briefing can be quite misleading,” said Ileana Grigorescu, an assistant to U.K. Conservative MEP Andrew Lewer, in an email to the entire Parliament.

She proceeded to dissect Dăncilă’s document, pointing out where she felt the MEP had given an incorrect interpretation of the facts.

For example, where Dăncilă described the government as having “launched a public debate” on the new laws, Grigorescu pointed out that the debate “is just an email address where you can write your opinion.”

Her intervention triggered uproar in Romania, with a reporter from a local TV station, regarded as close to the Social Democrats, contacting Grigorescu to ask why she was so poorly informed about the reforms. Grigorescu hung up the phone.

The station then ran the story as “breaking news,” accusing her of tampering with official documents.

Asked why she decided to criticize the MEP’s document, Grigorescu told POLITICO: “Protesting in Romania is the new social gathering. Every few months we’re out into the streets, or so it has been for the last few years.”

“I didn’t expect it to have such an impact,” she said. “Lucky me for having a platform to reply and be read on.”