Nope, this “membership” is only for air and water travel. There are still border checks on land. A great victory, as the politicians said, indeed.
Nope, this “membership” is only for air and water travel. There are still border checks on land. A great victory, as the politicians said, indeed.
Should we be fine with being treated as second class citizens just because Russia is worse? Of course people will react emotionally and not completely logically, many feel that their country has been humiliated and exploited.
The fact that a single country can just blackmail others in this way, to achieve its own goals doesn’t sound like a union to me. And with such cases russophiles begin to appear more and more right.
The EU needs major reforms in that area to make sure no one can abuse it. And blaming people for being fed up, with 12 years being used as scapegoats by various populists, is directing the blame towards the wrong people.
As I previously stated, I’m an avid supporter of the EU and our membership in it, but it can’t go on in this state.
Which requirements exactly? Taking in Austria’s immigrants so their populists can brag that they’ve saved their country?
The requirements have been met a long time ago, and so says the European Commission. I guess Austria is the only enlightened in the whole EU to determine that Bulgaria and Romania are not ready.
Even as a strong believer in a united Europe, I can’t blame people getting eurosceptic, seeing how our supposed allies treat us.
The Bulgarian PM said that Bulgaria won’t be accepting any more refugees and that this kind of conditions are unacceptable, so at least that’s good.
I’m really disgusted by Austria. I really thought they couldn’t stoop lower but alas.
Or in other words:
“Austria wants to say it has resolved the problem, while fully ignoring the larger issue, and to get rid of refugees, by dumping them in Bulgaria and Romania.”
Happy unification day to the bromanians 🥳
It should have never happened. Gradual Schengen entry like this is for new members, not countries who have been meeting the criteria for 12 years.
The fact that countries like Austria can block others’ accession on blatant lies is beyond messed up.
Meanwhile, the Kilometers-long lines of trucks are still at the border, sometimes spending days there. The only things that changed are the two minutes you save at the airport and the politicians bragging how they “got us in Schengen”.
That was a shameful decision and a disgrace. The EU needs major reforms so countries like this can’t abuse their power or try to blackmail others, using Schengen.