Turning away or letting the migrants who want to get into the European Union die at sea is absolutely unacceptable, Premier Victor Ponta declared on Saturday in an interview with the Al Jazeera TV channel, cautioning at the same time that “we should prepare for new waves of migrants,” and that the Black Sea has become a new migrant route into the EU.
“Rejecting and letting the migrants who seek to enter the European Union die at sea is unacceptable,” said the head of the Romanian Government in the interview granted while on an Arabian Gulf tour.
“We cannot build a wall against the people who want to reach Europe,” Ponta argued, stressing that “thousands of hopeless people attempt every day to reach Europe.”
“It is unacceptable for the EU to say they can do nothing else but turn these people away”, he added.
Victor Ponta also said that the EU should allocate extra funds and set immigrant integration policies in place. “We need to find policies to integrate most of them. This is my country’s response, the only democratic response,” he explained. More…