Loading ...President Traian Basescu said on returning from a one-day working visit to Rome late on Thursday that he had asked, during a meeting with Premier Silvio Berlusconi that the country's authorities eliminate from the Italian laws on public security and immigrants any possibility to discriminate against the Romanian citizens 'or that should leave the Romanians the impression that they are being discriminated'.
Basescu said again he had handed over Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni a working document containing an analysis of the 'ambiguities' in the Italian legislation referring the respect of the European principle of the free movement. He also said he had agreed with Berlusconi that Maroni pay a visit to Bucharest next week and search for solutions to such issues with Romanian counterpart Cristian David.
The Romanian leader reiterated the responsibility that the Bucharest authorities have for the Romanian Roma minority living in Italy and he announced that the governments of Romania and Italy had agreed to draft a project on their inclusion by their joint sitting due in October. The project might be approved at the two governments' joint sitting in October and then it should be backed by the European Union with funds for the various programmes to be developed on jobs, education and other social needs of the Roma minority.
Basescu said he had agreed with Premier Berlusconi that the Bucharest and Rome governments should work together when it comes about measures that might affect the Romanian or Italian citizens, so as not to 'get to a dialogue via the news media'.
He spoke about 'the reality of the exacerbation of matters as a result of certain media campaigns' and called again on the Romanian and Italian journalists to tackle such problems 'with responsibility'.
'The politicians know precisely the measure of the errors, statements and actions they make, but the news media campaigns that have no real grounds may bring about an atmosphere of hostility', he said, adding that the Bucharest authorities do not wish such a thing, but that their interest is that the Italy-based Romanians feel safe and be respected.
Basescu pointed out that his visit to Rome allowed the opening of a dialogue with the Italian authorities on 'a sensitive issue' and underscored that dialogue is the only way to solve the problems inside the EU.
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