Romania deserves to join the Schengen area, emphasizes Nicolae Ciuca – and will take steps to achieve this goal in 2023. The data from European institutions would also not confirm the figures on migration given by the Austrian Minister of the Interior.
Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca did Austrian veto once morest the country’s Schengen entry called “unfair” at a press conference in the Romanian embassy in Paris on Thursday evening. Ciuca, according to Romanian agency Agerpres, said Romania deserved to join the Schengen area and will now take steps to achieve that goal in 2023, as did President Klaus Iohannis am EUsummit declared on Thursday.
Ciuca also stressed that European institutions such as Frontex, Europol or Eurodac would not confirm the migration figures reported by the Austrian Ministry of the Interior. The decisions of Romanian citizens towards Austrian companies should be respected, but the government wanted to change the Austrian position through diplomatic channels.
“Have no diplomatic crisis”
After Austria’s veto, there were numerous calls for a boycott of Austrian companies in Romania. For example, ministries led by the co-governing Socialists (PSD) encouraged numerous state-owned companies and subordinate authorities to close their accounts with the Austrian banks represented in Romania, which is said to have happened in many cases. However, President Iohannis immediately called for moderation. At the EU summit, too, the President was visibly trying to calm the boiling emotions. He “never had the impression that a diplomatic crisis or anything like that was looming. We won’t have anything like that,” Iohannis said, according to Agerpres.
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