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AP Interview: Romanian president blasts corruption

Romania risks always being treated like an outsider in Europe unless it tackles issues such as government corruption, the Eastern European nation's president warned Thursday.In an interview with The Associated Press, Traian Basescu said Romania has a serious image problem — one that he acknowledged has fueled Western European fears of a flood of welfare-seeking immigrants and petty criminals if the country is ever admitted into Europe's border-free zone, known as Schengen."Let's answer this positively and make it a national objective to join the Schengen zone," the 61-year-old Romanian leader said.Passport-free travel in much of the continent under the so-called Schengen agreement is considered one of the European Union's signal achievements. The zone is made up of 26 countries, including some non-EU states.But the Netherlands has led opposition to Romania and Bulgaria joining the Schengen zone, and Germany and Finland have also said they are reluctant to let the poor EU members in, ci...

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