President Iohannis, in Brussels: Migration must be controlled, we must strengthen security at EU external borders

Migration must be controlled and security at the European Union's external borders must be strengthened, President Klaus Iohannis said on Thursday in Brussels. 

"Migration must be controlled. We must consolidate security at the external border of the Union. We must direct the migration flow, all migrants must be registered and those who are not refugees and should not necessarily benefit from protection be sent home," Iohannis stated before participating in the European Council meeting in Brussels. 

The head of state was asked whether Romania upholds Italy's position with regard to migration and the establishment of centres for taking refugees outside the European Union. 

"The issue of refugee camps outside of Europe is matter that has been discussed before. (...) Those hot-spots, which have never really worked well, have been discussed. So there might be solutions, but we need to decide once and for all what we are going to do, because migration will continue and the longer we delay making firm, clear decisions, the more difficult it will be to handle the process," Iohannis said. 

At the same time, the president specified that this meeting of the European Council is a "complicated" one. 

"We are starting today a complicated session of the Council, a session called the summer Council. We have a very rich agenda, with topics that interest us very much. The migration topic is back, it is highly debated, but we have themes such as PESCO, common defence which to us it is also very important. We have the already known topics, such as Brexit. We will certainly talk about the multiannual financial framework, so about the budget. There is also a discussion about the euro zone and that already famous euro zone budget and many more topics which feature on our agenda today and tomorrow," Iohannis showed.