‘Have you any nice monasteries?’ asked President Mary McAleese as she touched down in Bucharest International airport, Romania. ‘I love a good retreat.’
President Basescu smiled and looked nervously at Lazăr Comănescu, his Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Romanian President told his Irish counterpart that he was ‘anxious to attract our far-flung diaspora home. We have a terrible skills shortage here now.’
Mrs McAleese agreed that Ireland was very fortunate to have attracted highly educated and skilled young people into its restaurant industry.
‘Ireland and Romania have taken a long time to find each other, separated until recently by history and geography,’ she said last night while addressing a state dinner. ‘Now we are united by your need to work and our excess of money.’
The President will travel to Cluj in Transylvania today on the last day of her visit where she will meet with members of a faculty of Irish studies at the Babe-Bolyai University.
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