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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10545
SECTORAL POLICY / (ae) jha

Schengen - Romania pessimistic and angry

Brussels, 02/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - Romanian Foreign Minister Leonard Orban has said that the chances of seeing his country, and, indeed, Bulgaria, join the Schengen area were “not very hopeful”. With enlargement of the passport-free area currently being blocked by the Netherlands, he acknowledged that any decision to extend Schengen was dependent on publication by the Commission of two positive reports on the cooperation and verification mechanism (CVM), which assesses the progress...

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