PSD MEP Mihai Tudose, a former prime minister, said on Tuesday that he doesn’t think anything can be done about joining the Schengen area, and he doesn’t know “what the hell we’re negotiating, what everyone agreed that we met all the technical requirements.” criteria”.

“I will say exactly what I think and what I learned here. I don’t think there’s anything that can be done, and I don’t know what we’re agreeing to, that everyone will accept that we’ve met all the technical criteria that should have been met. I don’t think we’re even going to be on the agenda, remember what I’m going to tell you,” Tudose said.

He stated that tomorrow (Wednesday, no) the agenda of the JAI meeting will be drawn up, and he showed that he does not believe that Romania will be on the agenda of joining the Schengen area.

“Croatia will come with a whistle, and Bulgaria, and we will not even be on the agenda,” the MEP from the PSD also stated, adding that “our presence on the agenda will require a reasoned position of some states, why they do not agree.”

“The last time I looked at the map, there was no border with Austria, maybe they have other maps,” commented Mihai Tudose, referring to the arguments used by the Austrians in their decision not to support Romania joining Schengen.

Tudose showed that “there are other arguments, political and economic, that these states cannot express publicly at the table.”

“I hope that next time, that there will be a next time. Now you will say that I am involved in politics, but the main vectors, today, when we speak, in Romania are the president, the prime minister, the minister of internal affairs, the minister of foreign affairs. All of them are from the PNL family, from the family of the right. The commission is run by the right, the parliament is run by the right, this is their political family,” said Tudose, noting that the opponent country Austria is also run by the right.

“We are waiting for maybe the next time the Spanish presidency, when the Spanish prime minister is a social democrat, will have more success,” Tudos said.

Both Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner and Chancellor Karl Nehhammer sent sharp new messages on Tuesday: they are not going to change their minds at the JAI Council on December 8-9 and will vote against Romania and Bulgaria joining Schengen. . The announcement by the two Austrian officials came a day after a new visit to Vienna by Interior Minister Lucian Bode, who tried to convince his counterpart to drop his refusal to accept Romania into Schengen.

The European Commission stressed on Monday that Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia “fully meet all the requirements” to become full members of the Schengen agreement and expects all 27 member states to give the green light to their entry on Thursday, although there is no unanimity.

It will be recalled that the Dutch government on Friday gave the green light to the accession of Romania and Croatia to the Schengen zone, but left its “firm” opposition and “refuses to accept” the accession of Bulgaria to the free movement zone. And the Swedish parliament voted for Romania’s accession to Schengen.