Correspondence from Paris President Traian Basescu has started a visit to lobby the French authorities to obtain their support in sustaining the adherence calendar.
Two days in France, an opportunity to meet his counterpart at Elysee, Jacques Chirac as well as the leaders of the two Chambers of the French Parliament, a meeting with the observer for Romania in the European Parliament, Pierre Moscovici. This is the Presidential agenda for an official visit in the context of Romaniaâs adherence to the EU, when our country needs support from Paris firstly by the ratification of the Adherence Treaty. Chirac confirmed it yesterday. "We support Romaniaâs efforts of fulfilling the engagements it had taken", he said.
The President is optimistic after the discussions with Jacques Chirac: "France remains the same unconditioned supporter of Romania in the process of integration in the EU". Basescu is the first Romanian after-the-revolution President that didnât book as the place for his first official visit abroad the capital of one of the "Europeâs engines", France.
AXES AND INTERESTS He is now on a visit that is to improve the relations with Europe, after he was severely criticized for his hurrying to visit London and Washington, shortly after he had become President and especially for his statements regarding the famous "Bucharest-London-Washington axis". This is something the French pres didnât put aside saying that Traian Basescu was trying to revive the relations with France.
MEDIA However, his visit is very present in the media in the capital of France and, in the past days, he had been invited to give interviews for TV5, Euronews, Delta RFI, and there were articles about him in the written press, like Le Figaro, Liberation or LâExpres.
In a BBC comment on this visit, which Rador took over, they said that French Parlia
