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Adrian Severin: France should be excluded from Schengen. Paris shouldn't give anticorruption lessons to Romania!

Social Democrat MEP Adrian Severin told RFI that the strategic partnership with France is dead, that Paris is in no moral position to give anticorruption lessons to Romania and that a possible denunciation of the Mechanism of Cooperation and Verification would have no consequences. Severin also says that France should be excluded from Schengen, if it comes to corruption issues, and that Romania should leave the International Organization of the Francophonie.

"Romania should quickly get in contact with all capitals and show them that the French and German interior ministers' request is an illegal, immoral and anti-European one, not anti-Romanian. If new criteria is added, such as the one of corruption, I think we should speak of excluding France form Schengen space, because affairs such as Bettancourt or Karachi and others, along with some pressure France put on Romania to sign trade contracts to France's advantage, in the context of Romania' Schengen accession, all these speak of corruption. So when the current French government wants to give us lessons in corruption, I think it does not have the moral stance to do so," Severin said.

Romanian-French strategic partnership is dead

"We must see if this famous strategic partnership still works. In my opinion, it is dead, but we have to see if there are any reasons for Romania to stay in the Francophonie. All these things must be discussed very seriously with the French government, not through the media but by diplomatic channels," Severin also said.

The PSD MEP also said there would be no consequences if Romania denounced the MCV: "Because, from the point of view of the safeguard clause, it is out of place and the safeguard clause was a provision of the treaty, so no sanction can be applied, and there are no other tools because European Commission representatives don't have the courage to tell the truth. It's what the Brits call 'gentlemen agreement,' an understanding between a state and the European Commission, an understanding that offers the Commission rights that European treaties do not. So nothing could happen in this regard. This is a war of wards. This MCV has become a tool of blackmail and discrimination against Romania and has not and cannot lead to improving Romanian legal system results."

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07.01.2011. 22:59

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