{"id":118907,"date":"2023-11-23T07:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T05:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/no-justifiable-reason-to-keep-bulgaria-out-of-schengen-says-roberta-metsola\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T07:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T05:35:15","slug":"no-justifiable-reason-to-keep-bulgaria-out-of-schengen-says-roberta-metsola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/no-justifiable-reason-to-keep-bulgaria-out-of-schengen-says-roberta-metsola\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No justifiable reason\u2019 to keep Bulgaria out of Schengen, says Roberta Metsola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118907\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nRoberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament, voiced on Wednesday her unconditional support for Bulgaria&#8217;s bid to join the Schengen Area in anticipation of a high-stakes vote next month. &#8220;We stand fully on your side,&#8221; Metsola said upon receiving Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov in Strasbourg. &#8220;There is no justifiable reason not to admit Bulgaria as you have now fulfilled all the conditions since, it bears repeating, 11 years,&#8221; she went on. &#8220;Bulgaria&#8217;s rightful place is in the Schengen Area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria, together with Romania, have been stranded at Schengen&#8217;s doorstep since they both became part of the European Union in January 2007. The passport-free area currently covers 27 European nations, 4.3 million km2 and more than 423 million citizens. The European Commission and the European Parliament have for years said that Bulgaria and Romania are ready to enter Schengen, but the two nations have been left out due to resistance from an increasingly small number of governments.Expanding the ranks of Schengen requires the unanimity of all member states.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, only Austria and the Netherlands oppose Bulgaria&#8217;s accession. Austria&#8217;s opposition, which also extends to Romania, is considered the main roadblock as it is rooted in a broader dissatisfaction with Schengen. Vienna argues the irregular flows of migrants that cross into the EU every year prove Schengen is &#8220;not functioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Netherlands has signalled it might approve Bulgaria&#8217;s bid if a series of conditions on judicial reform and anti-corruption fight is met. Sofia and Bucharest have tried to counteract these arguments by engaging in intense diplomacy with Austrian and Dutch officials. But despite a flurry of bilateral meetings, the positions have remained virtually unchanged since a vote in December last year, when Bulgaria and Romania were denied entry \u2013 and Croatia was welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, the country that currently holds the EU Council&#8217;s rotating presidency, has promised to hold a new vote next month during a meeting of home affairs ministers. The provisional agenda for the 5 December gathering includes an item on Bulgaria&#8217;s and Romania&#8217;s applications, but only as a possibility. &#8220;I sincerely hope the Spanish presidency will make every possible effort to reach an agreement between all member states this winter,&#8221; Metsola said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2023\/11\/22\/no-justifiable-reason-to-keep-bulgaria-out-of-schengen-says-roberta-metsola\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2023\/11\/22\/no-justifiable-reason-to-keep-bulgaria-out-of-schengen-says-roberta-metsola\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/no-justifiable-reason-to-keep-bulgaria-out-of-schengen-says-roberta-metsola\/\">\u2018No justifiable reason\u2019 to keep Bulgaria out of Schengen, says Roberta Metsola<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2593,555,7143,12370],"class_list":["post-118907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bulgaria","tag-csr-news-en","tag-metsola","tag-shengen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}