ForMin Aurescu: Romania prefers voluntary migrant quotas

ForMin Aurescu: Romania prefers voluntary migrant quotas

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu declared on Wednesday that any proposition or figures put forward by the European Commission as regards the refugees will be subject to an inter-institution analysis in Romania, which prefers voluntary immigrant quotas instead of mandatory ones.

“We will see the elements presented by the President of the [European] Commission. The position announced by both the prime minister and the President [of Romania] is of preferring a system of voluntary, not mandatory quotas. Any proposition of the Commission, any figure that might be put forward is subject to the internal process of inter-institutional analysis and to negotiations between the [EU] member states,” Aurescu said after attending the meeting of the Standing Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies. More…