The Minister of Internal Affairs Cătălin Predoiu had, in the last two weeks, meetings with the Bulgarian Minister of the Interior in Sofia, together with the European Commissioner, with the German Minister in Bucharest and with the Hungarian Minister in Budapest. In everything, we obtained unconditional support for Romania’s accession to Schengen with the land border, in 2024. He participated, on Monday in Ghent, Belgium, at a meeting of the Ministers of the Interior, organized by the European Commission and devoted to the immigration issue. Predoiu stated that “migration is one of the most acute current vulnerabilities of the European Union” and “if we do not take urgent measures in all member states, migratory flows will destabilize the EU in the next ten years”, but Romania has no problems with illegal migration.
“If the European Union does not quickly develop and adopt in the new European Commission and in the new European Parliament a coherent policy on migration, the phenomenon will get out of control. In parentheses, the topic of migration is one that deserves more attention in the electoral campaign for the European Parliament. During the European meeting in Ghent, I had a wide presentation, accompanied by slides, graphs and concrete statistics, as well as a series of video presentations of case studies to be solved by the Romanian Border Police, as well as other interventions on during the course of the conference. In my intervention I once again demonstrated the results of the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs in protecting the national and European Union borders, as well as in combating illegal migration”, said Cătălin Predoiu, according to the press release of the MAI.
He also said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ plan to combat illegal migration has yielded results.
“Romania has no problems with illegal migration. The Romanian border is currently secured against illegal migration. Through this intervention in Ghent, as well as through the bilateral discussions we had here with the European Commissioner, with the Ministers of the Interior, including Minister Karner, we continued the positioning and profiling of Romania as an important state of the European Union, as a Schengen member state with performance in border management, a model for other member states of the European Union. Today, no one can dispute the fact that Romania has no structural problems of illegal migration. No one can dispute the fact that the Ministry of Internal Affairs protects the national and Union borders very well”, added the Minister of the Interior.
Predoiu also specified that “on these pillars we are building our continuous action for entry into Schengen and with the land border in 2024”.
“As I said before, we have a well-established diplomatic plan that we will follow until we reach our goal,” concluded Predoiu.
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