I think that most of the EU countries will end up on the designated safe country list, and it happens to be that Roma are the largest minority in Europe. There are 15 million of us in Europe and we're throughout European countries. Romania and Bulgaria are two countries that have huge concentrations of Roma. If anybody thinks that removing the visa from these countries and implementing a designated safe country list is going to stop people in such desperate situations from trying to come here, it's going to make our country even more of a mess.
On May 3rd, 2012. See this statement in context.