Close the doors to the Schengen Romania and Bulgaria. After the rejection in France and Germany at the entrance of the two countries within the EU area of free movement, expressed in the last days of December, Bucharest and Sofia seems to be no more hope. Despite attempts at mediation in Hungary, the head of the Presidency of the EU, the Franco-German axis seems to have had the upper hand, because to accept a new country within Schengen you need unanimity of the member countries.Schengen space includes the abolition of controls and the adoption of common standards for persons at internal borders controls more than offset by the external strengthening of judicial cooperation and collaboration between police forces, the coordination of the states in the fight against international organized crime (for example, mafia, arms trafficking, drugs, illegal immigration) and the integration of databases of the police force (the Schengen Information System, SIS).
At today are part of the EU countries (except UK and Ireland), other European countries with special conditions (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein), while Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria in the negotiations. And here are a straight leg occurred France and Germany, giving reasons for their niet alleged problems with "legal and police" as well as the inadequate security of the Bulgarian border with Turkey on the immigration front.
A legal way to stop the integration of two countries "uncomfortable" after the expulsion of the Roma (Romanians and Bulgarians) last September by France of Sarkozy. But Romania is not there and his Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi makes its voice and the threat out of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism established by the European Commission to monitor the progress of legislation necessary to enter Schengen.
Romania is also ready to filibuster the amendment of a clause in the Treaty of Lisbon provides for the increase in the number of MEPs (18), 3 of which should be German. But to pay the consequences could be more that Croatia should join the EU in the first six months of 2011. Romania could get across the red light just revenge on Schengen.
Does not bode well to recent scandals in Bulgaria. Rumer Petkov, former Interior Minister who resigned for links with the underworld, complains of the 30 million "disappeared" of the 130 total allocated by Brussels to help the country reach the standards set by Schengen. To make matters worse, recent wiretaps published on the pressures made by the Minister of the Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov for some companies to avoid detection.
To quench the fire of controversy should be Hungary, the head of the Presidency of the EU and torn apart by controversy over the gag law in the spotlight of the international community. But Budapest seems to be between two fires: on the one hand the need for graceful favor with France and Germany, the backbone of the Union, the other requirements of good neighborly relations with Romania and Bulgaria as well as the promises on their early inclusion in Schengen.
The fact is that the official announcement of the stop to the two countries has been repeatedly made and withdrawn, with the Hungarian news agency MTI that has corrected statements by the Hungarian Interior Ministry about the "priority of ensuring access to and Romania Bulgaria in Schengen.
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