European Council President Donald Tusk on Thursday evening voiced his confidence that Romania will perform "with energy and with wisdom a true Romanian Rhapsody" during the six months when the country holds the Presidency at the Council of the European Union.
In his speech fully delivered in Romanian on the stage of the Romanian Athenaeum, during the ceremony marking the takeover of the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council, Tusk voiced his conviction that Romania will do all its best to defend Europe's interests.
"You will be Europe's hosts and I am positive that you will act in the spirit of the proverb 'A good farmer makes a good farm.' I also have faith that you will grant the necessary importance to observing rules," the European official underlined.