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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10458

23 September 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/jha
Finland and Netherlands block Schengen enlargement

Brussels, 22/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - Another black day for Europe, with Romanian and Bulgarian citizens simply having to grin and bear it. Thanks to the Dutch and Finnish vetoes (see EUROPE 10457), EU home affairs ministers were unable, in Brussels on Thursday 22 September, to approve decisions enlarging the Schengen area to include Romania and Bulgaria.

One single veto is enough to block accession to Schengen as decisions have to be taken unanimously. All the member states except the...

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