Visit of&nbsp;Dacian CIOLOS, Romanian Prime Minister to the EP in Brussels.&nbsp;Arrival, welcome by Martin SCHULZ, EP President, roundtable and&nbsp;extracts from the press point

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SCHULZ, Martin (S&D, DE)

CIOLOŞ, Dacian (Renew, RO)

Martin SCHULZ, EP President meets with Dacian CIOLOS, Romanian Prime Minister: arrival, roundtable: and extracts from the press point

Martin SCHULZ, EP President welcoming Dacian CIOLOS, Romanian Prime Minister: handshake.

Dacian CIOLOS, Romanian Prime Minister signing into the golden book

SOUNDBITE (German), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, We spoke about the situation in Romania, about the situation in the EU, about the EU Council Summit points on the table,  about UK , about refugees, and about Moldova.

SOUNDBITE (Romanian), Dacian CIOLO&#350;, Romanian Prime Minister, I presented to the President my Government priorities for this year. This year is having also as objective the organisation of local and national parliamentarian elections, and also some reform projects that we have introduced and I presented to the President.

SOUNDBITE (Romanian), Dacian CIOLO&#350;, Romanian Prime Minister, I've told him that one of our objectives is to make Romania being an EU member state assuming in a more proactive way the status of Member State and to get more involved into EU agenda's files. Therefore we discussed about two main files: one is about the relation between EU and UK relations and the question concerning migration.

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, European Treaty is based on some fundamental principles. One principle is the guarantee of free movement, and another is the principle of non-discrimination. I'm full of understanding and the colleagues in the EP as well, that a member state is feeling that its social welfare system is overstretched or abused, and is having the right for protecting itself. But this has to be in full conformity of the two principles I've just mentioned: freedom of movement and non-discrimination. I think the Council, on Thursday, will define a frame in which that could happen, and it's than up to the lawmakers to go up into the details. We could agree on the principles on Thursday, but the details, quite clear have than to be find in the co-decision procedure between the Council and the Parliament.

SOUNDBITE (English), Dacian CIOLO&#350;, Romanian Prime Minister, We can agree with such emergency mechanism which could be very well defined, with very clear criteria, to mobilise such a mechanism. Such a mechanism should be a real clear exception and not a rule and to be very clearly limited also for UK. This is the position of Romania.