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German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (R with his French counterpart Alain Juppe during a joint press conference on the occasion of a meeting of the NATO Foreign Ministers to discuss Libya, Afghanistan and missile defence in Berlin, Germany, 14 April
Bulgaria and Romania are still not ready to join the Schengen Agreement, according to French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and his German counterpart, Guido Westerwelle.
"France supports the two country's Schengen entry in the Agreement, but up to now, they have not coped with the necessary criteria," Juppe said after the two diplomats met in Berlin.
Westerwelle declared he supported his colleague's words, Deutsche Welle reported on Thursday. Thus, France and Germany refuted statements manifested recently by the Bulgarian authorities, including Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, that they will change their position in the nearest future.
Bulgaria and Romania have already met the technical criteria for joining Europe's border-free zone, but they are supposed to overcome the political objections to their Schengen accession of France and Germany and some other EU member states who have demanded greater results from Bulgaria in fighting crime and corruption – even though those requirements are not technically part of the Schengen process.
End of 2010, France led a wave of criticism against Bulgaria's and Romania's planned mid-2011 entry in Schengen, based on unresolved issues with corruption and organized crime that have little to do the technical requirements for joining. Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway and Finland also expressed concerns on the two EU newcomers' readiness to enter SSchengen
The European Parliament will vote a resolution on Bulgaria's Schengen entry on June 4 2011, the EP rapporteur on the subject, Portuguese MEP Carlos Coelho, announced Monday in Brussels.
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