The Regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard, the European Common Asylum System and relocation mechanism, the European Union's cooperation with third countries, the response to terrorist threats and the guarantee of a fair electoral process are among the topics of the discussions to take place in Brussels on 7-8 March, at the first formal meeting of the JHA Council of Romania's term of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Interior Minister Carmen Dan announced on Friday.
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She specified that the item of the elections to the European Parliament is treated as a priority by the European officials.
"We all want the results of the ballot to reflect only the option of the people with the right to vote and for this it is mandatory to counteract at European level any interference or attempt to influence and manipulate the opinion of the Union's citizens," said Carmen Dan, at the Ministry of the Interior.
She also spoke about the establishment of RescEU, a tool that will bring together capacities for rapid intervention in the event of natural or man-made disasters, whose effects go beyond the response capacity of a member state.
"The Romanian Presidency of the Council will also take the last procedural steps to close the dossier on modifying the Civil Protection Mechanism (...) The European Union will have at disposal a reserve consisting of firefighting planes, high capacity water pumps, mobile hospitals and emergency medical teams as well as other means to respond to situations such as medical emergencies or radiological, nuclear, chemical and biological incidents," the Interior minister said.
Carmen Dan thanked the previous Presidencies, the representatives of the European Commission and all the member states who "made this success possible".
AGERPRES .