Bulgaria will cooperate with Romania over Schengen

The speaker of the Bulgarian parliament and the Chamber of Deputies President has agreed on a parliamentary cooperation between Bulgaria and Romania concerning the issues of Schengen accession of the two countries. This cooperation process includes meetings on a regular basis of the committees that are in charge of the Schengen accession which will be in charge of presenting clear and common statements that concern the application of the two countries to enter the visa free travel area of Schengen. According to the speaker of the Bulgarian parliament and the Prime Minister of Romania, the bilateral cooperation is a necessity that will add to the governmental partnership process between the two countries.

The two representatives of the Bulgarian and the Romanian authorities stated that the two countries have fulfilled the technical criteria as requested and have implemented the required commitments that concern the border control and the security of the two countries. According to the Prime Minister of Romania the process of postponing the entry of Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen agreement zone is humiliating and unacceptable. The speaker of the Bulgarian parliament further spoke about the upcoming meeting and police cooperation between the Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia – a step that will be approved by the European Commission as a declaration for the strict security processes in the three countries and in the European Union in general. Romania and Bulgaria hope to enter the Schengen agreement in 2014, since they will join efforts and will not allow being opposed to one another as until that moment.