Hollande on Schengen: Romania is ready to take on some commitments

AGERPRES special correspondent Florentina Peia reports: France's President Francois Hollande said Tuesday in relation to Romania's accession to the border-free Schengen Area that the country is ready to take on some commitments.

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'We have agreed that the incoming European Council summit should make decisions to control the movement of persons, the PNR (e.n. ? passenger name record) as well as decisions to oversee the Internet and to allow the destruction of websites that allow radicalisation. (...) Romania (...) is ready to take on some commitments. I want us on Thursday at the European Council summit to coordinate on all border dispositions in order to better control arrivals and departures in Europe. That way we will be able to prevent the departure of combatants and be informed about their whereabouts,' said Hollande after meeting Romania's President Klaus Iohannis in Paris, in relation to the incoming summit on Thursday.

The French President also mentioned having discussed with Iohannis of the commercial exchanges between France and Romania.

'France is present in Romania, having conducted sizeable investments over the past years and we want to further such investments,' said Hollande.

He added that Renault is contributing 3 per cent toward the formation of Romania's Gross Domestic Product.

'Continuing is in the interest of both countries. Romania's balance of trade will stand to gain from the relationship with Romania,' said Hollande.

He added that there are shared interests between the two countries also in infrastructure, transport, energy, including nuclear power, services, with new technologies, as well as defence.

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