Romanian President Nicusor Dan says that discussions at the informal meeting of the European Council on Thursday were not “the 14th Congress” the last Communist Party Congress before Nicolae Ceausescu’s fall from power weeks later.
“Some tough things were said,” during Thursday’s talks which focused on economic issues. “Everyone agrees that Europe is not moving fast enough,” he said.
“In terms of European defense, endowment and all the rest, in my opinion, the EU states and the bloc … are aware of what they have to do in a very short, medium and long timsescale,” he added.
“Today’s discussion was not like at the XIV Congress, that is, some tough things were said. It was said that in the last two years the steel industry has lost 15%, the chemical industry 10%.”
“Everyone agrees that Europe is not moving fast enough, that is, compared to what it set out to do a year and a half, two years ago, it did not succeed. ..We must still put pressure on so (things) happen at the speed adapted to the times we live in,” Dan said Thursday evening after the meeting ended.
He stressed that, even as the EU is develops economic relations with India and Latin American, “beyond that, no one disputes the importance of the transatlantic relationship.”
Regarding NATO, he said it was not surprising that the US asks Europe to invest more in its own defense.
He said that since President Donald Trump’s first term, the main concern of the United States must be the Pacific, and the security contribution in Europe must be ‘’balanced’ between the United States and Europe.
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