There is a hysterical anti-Austrian sentiment in Romania surrounding the decision to block the country’s Schengen accession, with customers withdrawing their money from Austrian banks and many demanding the nationalization of the oil company OMV.
Last week, Austria and the Netherlands vetoed the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area.
Public officials in Bucharest, the government, and parliamentary parties have strongly denounced the Viennese government. The Romanian foreign ministry has summoned the Austrian ambassador in protest and even called the head of Romania’s diplomatic mission in Vienna home for consultations.
Videos of Erste Bank customers cutting their bank cards with scissors are already circulating on social media, while someone painted “Nazi Bank” and “Nazis = Austria” on the entrance to a Raiffeisen Bank branch in Cluj-Napoca over the weekend.
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Romanian Interior Minister Lucian Bode has sent an open letter to his Austrian counterpart Gerhard Karner expressing his "deep outrage" at the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council's vote against Romania joining the Schengen area.
He described the decision as "unfair, wrongful, without any real justification" and shared fears that it would cause huge damage at EU level and a dangerous precedent in the current geopolitical context.
"You treated the Romanians and Romania in an unfair, discriminatory and illogical way. I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but this way of behaving and acting is not suitable for any politician from the European Union," emphasizes Bode.
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