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| DIPLOMACY AND THE ROMANIAN - ITALIAN RELATIONS 24/02/2009 |
| (2009-02-24) |
| Last updated: 2009-02-25 16:42 EET |
The hostile stance taken by a part of the media against the Romanian community, but also by some of the Italian politicians has sparked serious concern in Bucharest, and is highly likely to dent what the two sides describe as the strategic partnership between the two states. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini made an attempt to sort things out, stating that the bilateral relationship was a strong one. Frattini highlighted that the serious crimes attributed to a small number of Romanians should not have a negative wash back effect on law-abiding co-nationals, whose activity in Italy contributes to the growth of the Italian economy.
However, Frattini called on the authorities in Bucharest to deal with the Romanian nationals who were convicted in Italy, and to announce if Romanian citizens with criminal records were leaving for Italy. Frattini also said Romania should increase the number of policemen sent on a mission to Italy. For his part, Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu once again denounced any attempt to lay the blame on the entire Romanian community, because of some of its crime-prone members. Also, Diaconescu firmly rejected any obstruction of Romanians’ right to free movement, claimed by the Italian journalists, as a means to curtail what some of them have perceived as a crime export. Diaconescu went on to say that both countries had the duty to take steps in order to fight crime. Cristian Diaconescu:
"We’re talking about European citizens who have equal rights and obligations across the European Union, with respect to their criminal accountability in all EU member states, as well as regarding their right to be protected by the law of the country they live and work in. I might as well be equally entitled to ask what the Italian authorities’ response is in the case of Romanian citizens who fall prey to similar crimes. Crime holds no citizenship, crime has no nationality. It is our duty to take all possible measures available, institutionally speaking, to stave off and combat crime. No, we’re not going to take any measure to obstruct the right to free movement. We, who emerged from communism, have won that right the hard way. And it’s a right of an entire people.”
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