The RO-EXIT, the idea that Romania should exit the European Union (EU), does not exist and is not taken into account anywhere at the decision-makers’ level, Victor Negrescu, the delegate minister for EU Affairs, said.

According to him, it is just an idea “launched to stir controversy.”

Daniel Dragomir, a former colonel of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), who recently founded a political movement called Romania 3.0, launched at the beginning of October the idea of the RO-EXIT.

“It is important to identify those future solutions that can allow us to overcome the false topics sometimes launched in the public debate. […] and I’m referring to an alleged RO-EXIT which, actually, is not taken into account anywhere at the political level or at the level of the decision-makers in Romania,” Negrescu said, quoted by Agerpres.

He was speaking at an event marking the end of a series of local citizen consultations regarding the future of the European Union.

He explained that the idea of the RO-EXIT needs to receive “a firm answer, a clear answer, a constructive one, real solutions and especially real solutions stemming from what Romania wants and what Romanians want out of this shared project.”

Negrescu spoke of RO-IN, the actions meant to increase Romania’s European profile.

“Today, more than ever, we need to come up with a constructive project, a project for the future, one that underlines that our country is a state with full rights, which has a message for all this shared construction means. I called it RO-IN, practically the steps that we take, even today, on the occasion of these consultations, to increase Romania’s European profile.”

The delegate minister argued in favor of the need to involve the citizens in European topics.

Following the citizen consultations that took place this year, several directions that Romanians want to see implemented during the country’s presidency of the EU Council emerged. These include: EU’s support of economic, social and territorial cohesion; reducing disparities; increased security; respect for democracy, freedom and social justice; fighting terrorism and radicalization; and implementing migration policies meant to ensure the safety of the Union’s external borders.

The consultations took place in Arad, Constanţa, Panciu, Fălticeni, Craiova, Negreşti-Oaş, Târgovişte, Alba Iulia, Bârlad, Bacău, and Bucharest. They were organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the European Institute in Romania.

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