On Wednesday 5 October, MEPs urged the EU Council to accept the entry into the Schengen area of Romania and Bulgaria, which have met all the required EU border management criteria since 2011.
While the member states have hardly discussed the accession of these two countries to the free movement area since 2011, Dutch MEP Sophia in ‘t Veld (Renew Europe) called this attitude a “disgrace” towards the citizens of these two countries.
Supported in a plenary debate on 5 October by Czech...