A senior Romanian politician has launched a angry attack on David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, accusing Britain of having "declared war against an imaginary enemy".
Romanian MEP Corina Cretu said the rhetoric used by right-wing politicians against her countrymen went against the very principles of the European Union.
In a blog for the Huffington Post UK, Cretu said: "The Mayor of London – a respectable and important figure of the establishment – laments that ‘we can do nothing to stop the entire population of Transylvania… from trying to pitch camp at Marble Arch’.