Bulgaria was separated from Romania for the first time. Bulgaria and Romania were jointly admitted to NATO and the EU.
This is what the leader of “Republicans for Bulgaria” Tsvetan Tsvetanov wrote on his personal Facebook page regarding the decision of the Netherlands to block Bulgaria’s entry into Schengen. Here’s what else he shared:
“In all the years covering full membership, regardless of the different progress for the evaluation of the EC, we have not been separated from Romania on our way to the Schengen area. If we read carefully the monitoring report of the autumn of 2012.
Bulgaria made visible progress on the cooperation and evaluation mechanism and it was decided that the next EC report for Bulgaria would be in 18 months and for Romania the 6 month period remained.
But even then we were not separated from Romania, because the natural and normal logic is for both countries to be admitted to Schengen at the same time. Today’s assessment of the Netherlands on the separation of Bulgaria from Romania should not be sought in Prime Minister Rutte.
We must shut up, admit mistakes and continue to work, not continue to be the sole representative of the Putin regime in the EU. The intention of some representatives of the people to bring to parliament a proposal for a decision obliging the Bulgarian prime minister to vote against all Dutch initiatives is counterproductive.
Such a decision will be against Bulgaria’s interests and will provoke actions by EU countries against our country for non-compliance with our commitments regarding EU funds under the Recovery and Sustainability Plan and Operational Programmes.”
