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| Schengen and the Roma 28/01/2011 |
| (2011-01-28) |
| Last updated: 2011-01-31 13:05 EET |
The top priority, at this point, is getting included into the Schengen area by the end of March, even though that goal seems more and more remote with pointed opposition from Germany and France, and also from other less politically weighty member countries.
This is not for a lack of technical efforts towards Schengen inclusion on the part of Romania, but because of collateral issues, such as corruption in administration or the export of crime triggered by the massive gypsy migration from Romania toward the West. Basescu warned that a dangerous precedent could be created if a state were to be set additional conditions in the process of joining the Schengen area mere weeks before a decision was made.
He reiterated the fact that the Romanian authorities fulfilled all their obligations in that respect. Moreover, he tried to play down the fears about the permeability of Romanian borders, which are about to become those of Schengen. The president talked about constantly fighting crime at Romania’s borders, and even about legal action taken against tens of border police officers.
He also said that Romania would continue its efforts to improve the Roma situation, which includes increased absorption of structural funds and involving local officials in running projects aimed at that community. The issue of crime perpetrated by gypsies carrying Romanian passports is still a problem for everyone.
A few years ago, Italy was swept by a wave of Romanophobia, triggered by a few violent criminal acts perpetrated by Romanian gypsies in the Peninsula. In 2010, the relations between Bucharest and Paris, otherwise codified in a strategic partnership, became almost glacial after France had decided to practically deport back Romanian citizen nomads.
All this props up Bucharest’s wish for the Roma case to become a case for the entire European Union. In the domestic media, the president’s speech and its serious topics were overshadowed by what the daily paper Adevarul calls “the scandals in Bucharest, exported to Strasbourg”. Irked by the arrest of one of the local party barons, in a corruption case, representatives in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly from the Social Democratic Party (in opposition in Bucharest), boycotted the speech delivered by the person they accuse of turning Romania into a police state.
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