site.btaEuropean Commission and Spanish EU Presidency "Working for Bulgaria's and Romania's Schengen Entry by Year's End"

The European Commission or the European Parliament can bring action before the Court of Justice of the European Union over the lack of an EU Council decision on the admission of Bulgaria and Romania in Schengen, Dr Stefan Salomon from the University

The European Parliament will debate on Tuesday evening a draft resolution saying that Bulgaria and Romania should be admitted to the Schengen area by the end of 2023 and will put it to the vote on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, who answered questions from media and the public live on the Council of Ministers' Facebook page on Thursday morning, stated that Schengen with Bulgaria and Romania as its member states would be a much safer place for Europe than it is now.

Reindustrializing the European Union and guaranteeing its open strategic autonomy, a green transition, promoting social and economic justice and strengthening the unity of the EU are the main priority lines of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU, which the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain to Bulgaria, Alejandro Polanco Mata, presented in Sofia on Wednesday. This comes after Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez, took over the Spanish Presidency in Brussels.