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All eyes on tomorrow’s vote in JHA’a agenda concerning Romania’s 🇹🇩 accession to #Schengen. Here in 🇹🇩 it’s a big deal. It seems like all Romanians are eagerly waiting to see if Austria will truly block this vote, as announced. If so, this would be a huge mistake. ⤵️

In past months/weeks, #Romania responded to all concerns & proved that we deserve to be in Schengen. Not only Romania did so, but the EU Commission 🇪🇺/ EU Parliament voted recently in favor⤵️

ℹ️ Let me be clear: Romania 🇹🇩protects its borders better than ever, fight against corruption continues very well. We’re it! We have implemented and respected all requirements. And not this year, it has been the case for a few years now. It’s all been political so far⤵️

With the war in Ukraine, Romania proved once more that it was more than capable to keep its borders secured, managed millions of 🇺🇦 refugees etc. Everybody knows it. What Austria is invoking - that Romania is a clear way for immigrants - is fiction. It’s almost ridiculous⤵️

We do,however, understand that negotiations are taking place and we are also hopeful that this will work out. Our diplomacy is in full swing and has been for some time now. 🔴Austria is the ONLY vote against. All others know we deserve this fully⤵️

Also,Austria is not NATO, we are. This decision has tremendous security ramifications to further enhance NATO’s Eastern Flanc and broadly the Black Sea region. This is not the time to play politics with us. We are very serious about respecting our commitments. And we have. ⤵️

We expect the same. ➡️ This is a time when we must stand together. We, Romanians, believe in our European 🇪🇺 future and we have made it our national objective to fully integrate and be part of this family. We have come a very long way. Let’s get this done.

#RomaniaInSchengen

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Here’s what the EU🇪🇺 has to say about this : home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/bulgaria-and-r…