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| ROMANIAN-ITALIAN RELATIONS: SHARED INTERESTS 10/10/2008 |
| (2008-10-10) |
| Last updated: 2008-10-11 16:30 EET |
Over the past year, the (sometimes serious) crimes committed by Romanian citizens in the Peninsula have threatened the relations between Bucharest and Rome, at least at community level, if not at a governmental one. This prompted Italian authorities to draw up a set of drastic measures regarding the immigrants, although some of these measures were questioned by European policy-makers. The first top-level Romanian-Italian inter-governmental meeting was held in Rome Thursday, and was intended to smooth bilateral relations and improve the image of Romania and the Romanian community in Italy.
The two prime ministers, Silvio Berlusconi and Calin Popescu Tariceanu, emphasised that the ties between Romania and Italy are special and cannot be jeopardised by several crimes. The Italian premier pointed out that the number of Romanians living and making a decent living in Italy exceeds one million, but he did not hesitate to warn that authorities will not tolerate the presence of those who have no jobs and break the law. In turn, the Romanian prime minister underlined that the government in Bucharest did not want its citizens to leave the country; on the contrary, information campaigns are organised in order to bring them back home. He also mentioned that freedom of movement was a key European principle. Calin Popescu Tariceanu:
“We strongly feel Romanian citizens are European citizens who must benefit from the legislation and treatment that any European citizen expects from a European Union Member State. Obviously, Italian authorities have a different approach as regards immigrants from EU states and non-EU members, and this is, in my opinion, the starting point which I feel may lead to solutions to the problems we have been facing.”
The two parties actually work together to tackle the problems created by the Roma community in particular, and results have been positive, Silvio Berlusconi said. Along the same lines, the Romanian and Italian justice ministries are working on a bilateral agreement to allow the mutual transfer of convicts, without requesting their consent. In economic terms, the Berlusconi government seeks to encourage major Italian companies to invest in Romania, and export their output to markets such as Russia and Serbia. Italy also wants to get involved in the infrastructure projects that Romania will develop using European funds, which will reach 19 billion Euro by 2013.
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