Romania not being a member of the Schengen area does not encourage migrants to come to Romania for the time being and in the foreseeable future, says Chairman of Parliament’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) Oversight Committee Mihaita Calimente, who expects the migration flow to stay quite high.
“The pace of migration has not abated and there is no foreseeing an abatement, despite the winter conditions, in the flow because they might think Germany will say stop and close its borders, and that is why those en route want to get there and the migration flow, despite the weather worsening, will stay quite high,” Calimente said at Parliament House after a meeting with SIE Director Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu.
Asked what will happen with the refugees that should have arrived in Romania this November, he said that as far as he is concerned they will not arrive too soon, because they cannot be forced into coming.
“An attempt was made at their identification in Italy, but to no avail, because they are free there, there are no camps or centres to impede their movement. In my opinion, a very personal opinion, they will not come here too soon because they cannot be forced into coming. Leaving countries such as Italy or Germany, both in the Schengen Area, to come to a country that is not in the Schengen Area (…) they are informed people who know what it is all about and probably they do not want to come to Romania,” said Calimente.
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