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PM Ciolos: Romania can turn Brexit into a moment of new opportunities
Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos said Monday that Romania can turn the crisis triggered by Brexit into a moment of new opportunities, referring mainly to setting up a new country project to be supported by all political forces, Presidency and Government.
"Certainly, crisis moments such as this one [the Brexit] are also moments for new opportunities. In such moments, it is important to make very clear and firm decisions and that is why the meeting we had at the end of last week, at the Presidency House, with the political party leaders seemed significant because the meeting can set the premise for a new country project even in an election year (...) or for some principles, values and measures that we should agree on, the country's president, the current government, the political parties that are going to run in the general election and govern right afterwards, especially to turn this moment into an opportunity," Ciolos explained in an interview to the public radio station.
He underscored that Romania there are currently economic, political and geostrategic opportunities for Romania, adding that part of rethinking the EU functioning, Romania has a chance to better state its points of view in Brussels, provided that it has a country project.
According to him, the Brexit will also have an impact on the European budget the moment it comes into force.
"The Brexit will definitely have an impact also on the budget the moment it comes into force (...), because until this exist is made formally by a decision on a European level, after negotiations, the UK will have to continue to contribute to the European budget, according to the current regulations. Therefore, the European budget in the medium run will need to be redesigned from this perspective and from others," Ciolos said.
Prime Minister Ciolos pointed out that at the European Commission level various scenarios were being prepared to assess the developments in the European budget.
"I know that various scenarios were being prepared at the European Commission, to be discussed with the member states and Parliament, also for the assessment of the developments in the European budget (...), which should take place in 2017. (...) In the perspective of the decisions on the new European Union budget there will be rearrangements also from this point of view," Ciolos added.