MOLDOVAN PREMIER ASKS HIS ROMANIAN COLLEAGUE TO HELP REDUCE QUEUES ON BORDER

Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip has requested his Romanian colleague Vasilica-Viorica Dancila to help reduce travelers’ queues on the common border.

In his letter to Bucharest, Filip wrote that he is receiving numerous signals and complaints about the excessively overloaded border-crossing stations where, despite the measures undertaken recently, the border/customs control procedures continue to take much time.

Filip wrote that the situation is particularly aggravated in the summer season, when the stations have to handle tremendous queues of cars, buses etc. that have children and the elderly among their passengers. To improve the situation, Premier Filip called the Romanian Government to interfere into this situation “in the spirit of our open and dynamic partnership”.

A few days ago, Pavel Filip undertook a sudden visit to the Leuseni border-crossing station, where he revealed a number of violations and inefficient activities, and fired the Heads of the Leuseni Customs House and of the Leuseni Border Police unit. The Premier promised that such sudden checks would be continued, “And in case violations are revealed, we shall not restrict ourselves to bosses’ resignations only”.

Traditionally, the Moldova-Romania border is crossed by a sharply grown number of travelers – Moldova citizens going to European countries on leave and Moldovan labor migrants, who come home from Europe to spend their vacations here.

This past Monday night, your Infotag correspondent was returning home via the Albita/Leuseni border-crossing station, and there were more than a hundred cars and other motor vehicles from each of the directions. From the Albita side, the vehicle passage and checking was organized in 5 lanes and from the Leuseni side – in 3 lanes, so the document checking did not take very long.