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Romania requests to host future European Authority for Children
Romania is entitled to request the setting up in Bucharest of a future European Authority for Children sometimes in 2023, said European MP Dragos Pislaru, USR PLUS.
Pislaru, a rapporteur from Renew Europe for the EP resolution on the Guarantee on the Guarantee for Children and member in the EP team monitoring and implementing the Mechanism for Recovery and Resilience, made that statement at an online briefing organized by the EP Bureau in Romania.
He pointed out that since the beginning he wished that the authority be set up in Romania, because of the negative statistics on school abandon and social exclusion of children.
As for the calendar, Pislaru explained that setting up such an authority is connected to the implementation of the guarantee for children, as of this year.“As of June we will appoint national coordinators. They will start coordinating and after 6 months we will have national plans foreseen by the resolution on the implementation of the guarantee for children.
“My understanding is that we, in EP and in general, the Commission and Council, we will forget to see the quality of this coordination. We guarantee that sometimes between a year and a half and two years we will have a coordination problem. We are preparing a feasibility study about how we should set up our authority,” Pislaru said.
He assured that before the end of his mandate there will be “a concrete debate about the setting up of the Authority and 2023 seems to be the moment when we can make a decision in this respect.”
The European MP also pointed out that Romania is entitled to request such an authority as it has had only a cuber security center.
“I say an authority, as it is not an agency proper. It is true that some time should pass until Romania could have a new diplomatic chance to obtain such an authority,” Pislaru added.