{"id":122065,"date":"2023-12-13T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=122065"},"modified":"2023-12-13T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T11:59:38","slug":"eu-country-completely-rejecting-migrants-for-schengen-offer-after-tense-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/eu-country-completely-rejecting-migrants-for-schengen-offer-after-tense-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"EU country completely rejecting ‘migrants for Schengen’ offer after tense talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tensions have escalated in Sofia following reports of a Austria could gradually withdaw its veto on Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area, allowing changes in its policy on air borders.<\/p>\n

“I can imagine changes at the airport level for Bulgaria and Romania,” Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner admitted.<\/p>\n

However, he emphasised the necessity of certain “conditions”, including strengthening the protection of the EU’s external borders, intensifying checks at land borders, and ensuring better management of asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

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Local media highlighted that, with this latest condition, Karner appears to be requesting that Bulgaria accept Afghan and Syrian migrants expelled from Austria.<\/p>\n

“Bulgaria should join the Schengen area in full, including at land and maritime borders, as it has fulfilled all necessary requirements,” Bulgarian Parliament President Rossen Zhelyazkov claimed.<\/p>\n

He added: “An EU country like Austria cannot afford to impose conditions without the mandate of the EU Commission or all EU countries, conditions that go beyond the adherence criteria for Schengen.”<\/p>\n

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov described Karner’s words as “a step in the right direction”. However, he clarified: “We will not accept any special conditions to enter the Schengen space.”<\/p>\n

In response to the unfolding situation, Korneila Ninova, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), the main opposition party, expressed her dissatisfaction. “They are throwing crumbs at us; it is a disdainful and humiliating attitude towards Bulgaria, which is a fully-fledged EU member,” Ninova told journalists earlier this week.<\/p>\n

As the discussions continue, the outcome remains uncertain, and the implications for Bulgaria’s European integration hang in the balance.<\/p>\n