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Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu requested on Wednesday Interior Minister Carmen Dan to find urgent solutions, including through field trips and discussions with authorities in Hungary and Bulgaria, in order to ensure an easy traffic flow at the border crossing points the in the period of Easter holidays, especially at the Nadlac customs, which provides the link to Hungary, and the Giurgiu customs, which ensures the link with Bulgaria.
"I have seen over the last days queues at the border crossing points. I am convinced that in the following days these queues will increase, taking into account that Easter holidays are coming and many Romanians who work abroad are returning home. I don't want to get into details, perhaps you will carry out a dialogue with the Foreign Affairs Ministry in respect to our partners in Hungary, there are the longest lines, and with their help to have a dialogue with the ones in Hungary. I am interested and I believe that every Romanian who comes home is, after spending many hours driving, to enter as quickly as possible in the country. And I believe that it would be best to go there. You take also the chief of Border Police and go there, maybe even tomorrow [on Thursday - e.n.] to see at the scene what's the situation," the PM told the Interior Minister Carmen Dan in the opening of the Gov't meeting.
Grindeanu added that on Wednesday morning he had a discussion with officials of the Nadlac border crossing point and found out from them that the waiting time is "somewhere around two hours, very much." "This time will increase if measures won't be taken together and I ask you to have this dialogue with the partners in Hungary and with the ones in Bulgaria in order to shorten this time. I believe that it's absolutely necessary to do so [...] I really want solutions and I ask you nicely to find solutions, together with the people from the Border Police, so that, especially now, in this period, we avoid unpleasant situations," the PM stated.
Minister Carmen Dan explained that there is already "a plan of measures" which also includes her field trip to certain border crossing points.
