Romanian billionaire Ion Tiriac: Romanians should give 10% of their salaries for the immigrants

Romanian billionaire and former tennis player Ion Tiriac made earlier this week a surprising proposal regarding the immigrants’ crisis. According to him, Romania has the necessary resources to receive immigrants. Moreover, each Romanian should give up EUR 50 from the salary for the refugees. “They are starting to come now. Anyway, it is not a decision of Brussels, of Mrs. Merkel’s, it is Romanians’ decision. We have where, we can do it! Let’s give up 10% of our average salary of EUR 500 to welcome the first wave of 500, 1,000, 100,000 refugees,” Tiriac said at local TV station Realitatea TV. According to him, a new wave of immigrants will come, and this one will be 10 times bigger. Tiriac also suggested that the Americans are to blame for this crisis, because they are the ones who “opened Iraq to terrorism,” reports Ziare.com. The businessman also talked about the Romanians living abroad, saying that something must be done to bring them back. “Let’s see how we can bring them back, all those good professionals who have left, all those people who work to exhaustion for EUR 600-700. Let’s see how we can find 4 billion to give them jobs,” he said. Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis and Prime Minister Victor Ponta recently had some disputes on the refugee issue. Romania gives more money to refugees. More than half of Romanians believe that Romania should not receive refugees. Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com