President Klaus Iohannis emphasized on Friday at a meeting in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel that the UK should remain an important partner, informs a release by the Romanian Presidential Administration. "As for the Brexit, I stressed that it is very important for negotiations not to start before triggering Article 50 and that these negotiations must be handled by the Union 27 with the UK. Obviously, the UK should remain an important partner to us, too. To me, as Romania's President, there are some specific matters there, that are important and will find themselves at the core of our negotiations - for instance, the fate of the Romanians in the UK," said Klaus Iohannis, according to the source.
The head of the Romanian state had in Berlin a working meeting with Angela Merkel, also attended by Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and Luxembourg's Premier Xavier Bettel. "This meeting is part of a broader consultation process among European leaders, a consultation that at least in a first stage moves to preparing the next week's informal meeting in Bratislava. In reality, it is a series of very good meetings which, we hope, will allow us to reach even a strategy for the future of the European Union. Obviously, for the Bratislava meeting we have focused our talks around the Brexit, migration, the internal and external security, all matters that are not only in the attention of the leaders, but which do preoccupy everybody in the EU," President Iohannis concluded, according to the said release.
Comentează