site.btaBulgarian MEPs Urge Netherlands to End Schengen Blockade

Approached by journalists here on Wednesday, Bulgarian MEP Andrey Kovatchev (GERB/EPP) said that for 11 years now forecasts have been made on whether Bulgaria will be allowed in Schengen or not, therefore he finds it very hard to predict what decision the Justice and Home Affairs Council will take on December 9.

An open letter by the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (KRIB), addressed to the executive and legislative authorities, and distributed by KRIB's press centre, reads that Bulgaria's Schengen accession should not be delayed yet another time.

"The Netherlands Government is blocking Bulgaria and Romania for Schengen for domestic-policy reasons," Dutch Member of the European Parliament Sophia in't Veld of the Renew Europe Group said on Bulgarian National Television on Thursday.