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Romania's President Klaus Iohannis will be attending a summit meeting of the European Council on Tuesday and Wednesday, where he is expected to deliver a message about the need for unity and solidarity inside the European Union.
The Presidential Administration says the main item on the summit's agenda is the result of the recent EU referendum in the UK.
"At the meeting, Romania's President will deliver a clear message on the need for unity and solidarity inside the European Union, while voicing conviction that only by joint action and in the spirit of the European values will the European Union be able to overcome and provide the best answerer to the current challenges. At the same time, the head of state will underscore that Romania will stay attached to the European design and fully engaged in the consolidation and further deepening of the design."
At the same time, President Iohannis will speak up in favour of the need for the European design being rethought. "Thus, he will underscore that the people's regaining trust in the viability of the European Union is absolutely necessary as well as countering any nationalistic, extremist and anti-European currents in order to avoid the repeat of such process in the case of other EU member states."
According to the Presidential Administration, about the negotiation of the UK leaving the European Union, to be attended by Romania as well, Iohannis will point out that Romania will firmly defend the equality of rights among all the EU citizens, including as far as the rights of the Romanian nationals living and working in the UK go.
Also featuring in the summit's agenda will be migration, economics and EU's foreign affairs. "As far as migration is concerned, President Iohannis will hail the emphasis on the external dimension of migration, an approach that Romania has been supporting ever since the inception of it to treat the deep causes of migration, continuing to advocate for the European Union and Turkey continuing to implement their agreement," says the Presidential Administration.
As far as economics go, the summit will mark the end of the European Semester 2016, an efficient instrument for coordinating economic and structural policies at the level of the European Union. Also approved will be specific country recommendations. "Part of the talks regarding the external relations of the European Union will be the presentation of a global strategy for the EU's external and security policy. At the same time, the attending leaders will discuss cooperation between EU and NATO, giving that the July summit meeting of NATO in Warsaw is closing in," says the Presidential Administration.
