(Politico) Former Romanian President Traian Băsescu, newly elected as an MEP as part of the European People’s Party, slammed EU inaction on migration and what he sees as the bloc’s inability to protect its borders.
“The EU, through its lack of action, seems to tell us that we must live with the Muslim invasion,” Băsescu said in a TV interview this week.
Băsescu, a former commercial navy ship captain, served as Romania’s president between 2004 and 2014, and was in office when the country joined the EU in January 2007. As one of the two MEPs from Romania’s center-right People’s Movement Party, Băsescu said the migration issue was one of the battles he planned to fight in Brussels.
