TALKS

„The vote in the JHA Council is very problematic for all of us in Romania. I was disappointed and upset following this vote,” the president of Romania Klaus Iohannis said on Monday, after receiving the president of the Swiss Confederation Ignazio Cassis in Bucharest. The Romanian president added that he would most certainly raise the issue of Romania’s denied Schengen bid at the meeting of the European Council due on December 15. Romania should be a part of Schengen, the Swiss president said in his turn. The 2 officials discussed bilateral relations and economic cooperation, with an emphasis on boosting investments and identifying new areas of cooperation, and exchanged views on the latest international developments, including the war in Ukraine and its implications for the energy market and global security.