The Dutch Parliament accepted resolutionwhich decrees The Netherlands should not vote for Romania and Bulgaria to join the Schengen areaannounced Dutch MEP Sofia in’T Veld, coordinator of the Renew group in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE), reports “Adgerpers”.
“To my great regret a few minutes ago I learned that the Dutch parliament has passed a resolutionwhich states that the Netherlands should not vote for Romania and Bulgaria to join the Schengen area. I deeply regret this. My party voted against this resolution, we want Romania and Bulgaria to join the Schengen area immediately, you have met the necessary criteria. I’m afraid the Prime Minister of the Netherlands is doing little to convince the Dutch parliament or to take responsibility and say that in the interest of Europe it will agree in the Council (with Romania and Bulgaria joining Schengen) You have to understand that not everyone in the Netherlands is against it. My party wants Bulgaria and Romania to join Schengen immediately, but most ruling parties don’t want it“Casa Sophia in’t Weld.
The Dutch parliamentarians call on the government not to vote for Romania and Bulgaria to join Schengenwanting to analyze the functioning of the rule of law, the reduction of the level of corruption and organized crime in both countries.
The document, adopted by the Dutch parliament, states that the problems related to corruption and organized crime in a Schengen country “could cause serious problems in the functioning of the border control of the country concerned and could therefore represent risk to the security of the Netherlands and the entire Schengen area“.
In response the Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Chuka said so the veto of the Dutch parliament on Romania’s accession to Schengen is not alarmingnoting that Romania has done everything necessary to meet the technical requirements for membership.
“We don’t know at all we are not worried because Romania has done everything necessary to meet the technical requirements for joining the Schengen area, as demonstrated by the results of the checks carried out by the commission in charge of the matter “, said Chuka on a working visit to Dolj County.
The Romanian prime minister added that Dutch officials could come on an exploratory visit where they think there are problems.
“We have expressed our willingness, including in bilateral relations with the Netherlands, to welcome them for an exploratory visitwe are able to accept this bilateral cooperation so that they can check and see that we are ready for access to the Schengen area. “
“I can tell you as regards the rule of law we did it like this at the government level and at the level of the entire coalition, we are taking the necessary measuresin direct coordination and cooperation with the European Commission, to have a package of judicial laws fully aligned with justice in other parts of the European Union and lead to this process of modernization of justice in Romania, and for organized crime we have state institutions , which are very well established and are confident that they are fulfilling their duties as they have done so far. “
Before the veto was announcedintroduced by the Dutch parliament, President Klaus Iohannis indicated that Romania has a chance to join to the Schengen area, but not a guarantee, underlining that the result of the evaluation mission that took place in Romania is very good, but there are still issues that need to be further clarified.
“Schengen membership is very much desired by us and as I think it is known We have practically fulfilled the technical requirements for 11 years. Accession has not been achieved as there is also a political vote in the Justice and Home Affairs Council which has not yet taken place. Now there is a window of opportunity, that is, we have a chance, but no guarantee. To maximize our possibilities, we have taken many steps, “said the Romanian president before attending the European Council summit.
