Romania should integrate the Roma

The French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Pierre Lellouche, said on Tuesday that Romania will jeopardise its accession to the Schengen Area planned for March 2011 if it fails to do more to integrate the Roma population. Many Roma are currently leaving Romania for France and Italy. Laurentiu Mihu welcomes Lellouche's announcement in the daily România Liberă: "Responsibility ... must first and foremost be borne by the Romanian state. Instead of solving its problems it has chosen the most simple and cynical solution for the past 20 years: exporting them. I'm certain that many decision makers in Bucharest were unofficially delighted that crime in their own country was moving abroad. ... In contrast to Italy, France has now brought Romania to its senses with a decisive 'European' instrument: barred access to the Schengen Area. Even if it doesn't look that way, this cold shower could help us to do the right thing."

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