EC Representation head: 10 years after accession, 57pct of Romanians trust EU

A share of 57 percent of Romanians trust the European Union ten years after the country's accession, European Commission Representation head Angela Cristea said on the occasion of the presentation of opinion polls results about the ten years since Romania's and Bulgaria's accession to the EU. 

"It is an opinion poll we conducted together with the Representation in Bulgaria, because the two countries, Romania and Bulgaria, have ten years on 12 January 2017 since they have been EU member states, and we wanted to see how the citizens of the two countries see this thing. (...) If we were to take out three key messages from these results, they are the following: in the first place, Romanians become active European citizens and believe their opinion is heard, starting to be heard in Brussels," Angela Cristea told a press conference on Monday. 

She pointed out that, in the second place, the poll reveals "a perfect lining of the Romanians' wishes to those of the European Commission, as expressed by President Juncker in September, namely a clear preference for the scenario six on the future of the EU: the unity for all scenario." 

"In the third place, if we think about the working programme of the European Commission in the coming two years, now called Road to Sibiu - because in the first half of 2019 Romania will hold the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the first high-level meeting, the first EU summit after the UK leaving it, will take place in Sibiu - , we see that for Romanians the main priorities for this Presidency should be the cohesion, agricultural, security and migration policies, as well as the accession to the Schengen area and the CVM lifting," Cristea said. 

Also attending the event were Minister-delegate for European Affairs Victor Negrescu and presidential advisor Laurentiu Stefan. AGERPRES .