Romania's joining the Schengen Area would strengthen the capacity of the EU to secure its external borders, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lazar Comanescu told a joint press conference in Bucharest on Thursday with French Secretary of State for European Affairs Harlem Desir.
In his turn, the French official said that the Schengen accession topic now comes in a difficult context, stating that the crisis of the migrants and the terrorist attacks have cast doubts on the area itself. I hope we can move forward to make the Schengen Area advance and create the conditions that would allow Romania to join the Schengen Area, added Desir.
He mentioned having visited on Thursday morning the Border Police Operational Coordination Center, which he said is highly impressive thanks to the tools it uses in order to duly exert control of Romania's land, sea and air borders.
The two officials were expected to leave together for Moldova, as part of the joint actions of Romania and France's chairmanship of the Group for European Action for Moldova.
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