EU member states “must remain united”

Traian Băsescu said at the Popular Party summit in Marsilia that everyone must understand that what happened in the euro zone also affected the life of the citizens who were not in the euro zone.

“In Romania we are extremely addicted to the euro zone market from the point of view of the exports. Romania cannot accept a European Union with two categories of states”, the chief of state declared.

According to him, the solution to the current economic crisis is that the states from the EU stay united.

“Romania wants to participate in the making of the decisions regarding the euro zone because any decision or any lack of a decision about this euro zone affects the daily life of the Romanian citizens. The solution to the crisis is to stick together, to maintain an European Union with 27 members and not 17 members”, the chief of state said.

The President of Romania underlined that Europe needed a long term strategy to save itself.

“Europe and a big part of the world are going through a time full of challenges: the main debts crisis, the difficulties of encouraging the economic growth, the consolidation of the intern market, managing migration or the demographic problems of the European Union and the list can go on”, Traian Băsescu also said.

“We stand before a strategic decision: to have individual options or to accelerate integration. Europe needs a long term strategy not only to overcome the crisis faced in the present, but mostly to ensure its future”, Traian Băsescu declared at Marsilia.

The President of France, Nicolas Sarcozy, said on Thursday that he wanted an agreement regarding the budgetary discipline at the level of the 27 state members of EU, warning that if an agreement was not reached, the measures would only be applied in the euro zone, the publication France Presse reminds us.

On Thursday night, France and Germany will present the 27 states of the EU a common project of revising the European treaties which will considerably make the budgetary discipline even harsher.

Translated by: Violeta Mavrodin
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University