Bulgaria Supported for Schengen Entry by Luxembourg

The next president of the European Union Council will be Luxembourg and Bulgaria is lucky to have its support concerning the Schengen Accession. This was said by the Deputy PM Meglena Kuneva. This means that as Luxembourg gets the presidency since July 1st, Bulgaria will be strongly supported as far as Schengen area accession is concerned. This became clear after the meeting of Meglena Kuneva – the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister for Coordination of European Policy and Jean Asselborn – Institutional Affairs and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Luxembourg in the Grand Duchy.

In fact Schengen was the main topic of the high-end talks and the two state officials. Luxembourg has declared its unequivocal commitment to support all efforts of Bulgaria to enter Schengen within their Presidency. Bulgaria is expected to take the EU Council Presidency in 2018 and that will be the first time of the country.