: Romania is pleading for a clear deadline for its Schengen admission: as soon as possible, in 2024.
On Thursday, President Klaus Iohannis and Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov met with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer.
The meeting took place at the invitation of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the sidelines of the European Council meeting in Brussels.
So far, the sources said, Austria has only put forward proposals on air borders, and even „backtracked” on its position, no longer wanting to discuss accession with the land borders next year or the link between the entry with the air borders and the one with the land borders.
Austria’s gesture is seen as „insufficient,” as the country’s motivation is to get rid of as many migrants as possible from its territory, this being one of the conditions set for the decision on the airspace accession.
According to the European Commission, the Schengen airspace cannot be opened and the entry with the land borders be left uncertain.
In this context it is „absolutely necessary to have a very well established sequencing” and defined in the agreement between the parties involved.
Romania’s approach, say the quoted sources, is based on President Klaus Iohannis’s conviction that Romanians who, in very large numbers, come or go abroad by car and spend a lot of time in traffic and at the border, like carriers, must be particularly supported.
