EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – France wants to delay a decision on allowing Romania and Bulgaria to join Europe’s border-free Schengen zone at least until summer 2011 and is pressing for more results in the fight against corruption and a better surveillance of the border with Moldova.
VALENTINA POP | Euobserver.com
"We have to be very vigilent" about enlarging the border-free area to Bulgaria and Romania "who hope to join in March," EU affairs minister Pierre Lellouche said in the French parliament, as quoted by AFP. He warned against an "automatic enlargement" and said that the technical evaluations, which so far have all been positive, are not enough.
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