Italian language; closer in sound to Romanian or Portuguese (from Portugal)?

[Geronimo]

Italian
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we'll return now to Europe where we'll use the satellite, the presence of high pressure with maximums in the Baltic sea has determined a stable and very arid weather in the north-east sector of our continent, in northern Norway the humid atlantic currents have been the cause for short ... something I did not understood

by the way I dont speak italian ...

[Comte Arnau]

^ Italian is soo easily understandable it's not even funny!

[Arthur Scharrenhans]

The vowel system is a bit closer to Portuguese; the consonantal one, maybe a bit closer to Romanian.
The lexical and morphological structures are still much closer to Portuguese than to Romanian, however, and when you compare actual speech (as opposed to abstract phonetic/phonological systems) this counts.

The question is harder than with Spanish; as a native Italian speaker, both Romanian and European Portuguese are not so easy to understand for me, even though Portuguese is probably for the abovementioned reason: once I get past phonetics, I can actually recognize lexemes and morphemes similar to the ones of Italian.

But in this case I'll remain agnostic.