Minister-delegate Negrescu meets Italy's Savona and hails excellent level of Romania-Italy relations

Minister-delegate for European Affairs Victor Negrescu carried out consultations with Italian Minister of European Affairs Paolo Savona, who paid a visit to Bucharest, occasion on which the two officials hailed the excellent level of relations between Romania and Italy, and voiced their wish to strengthen cooperation at European level. 

According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) release, the two officials share similar views regarding the necessity to strengthen the European project, identifying the Education area as an instrument of particular importance in this process. 

The Minister-delegate also presented the stage of preparations for Romania to take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2019, underscoring the interest of the Romanian side in terms of Italy's expertise in managing the previous mandates, a MAE release sent to AGERPRES informs. 

In this context, the Romanian official also presented the main directions of the topics of interests of the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council, emphasizing on the need that the discussions regarding the future of the community project be followed by concrete policy proposals meant to bring benefits to the citizens. 

"Romania's exercise of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union is a good opportunity to strengthen the dialogue with Italy on topics of shared interest included on the European agenda. We will actively contribute, alongside Italy, in the discussions regarding the process of redefining the European project, in the spirit of the long tradition of friendship and cooperation between our countries," Victor Negrescu underscored.