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Brussels/Bratislava – The growth of the Schengen space is justified, acknowledged the State Secretary of the Ministry of Inside of the Slovak Republic, Lucia Kurilovská, after Thursday’s assembly of the EU Council for Justice and Dwelling Affairs in Brussels, the place it was determined that Bulgaria and Romania will turn out to be full members of the Schengen space from January 1, 2025, studies the TASR correspondent.
Kurilovská described this second as historic additionally as a result of each international locations have been making an attempt for 13 years to achieve full membership in Schengen and have steadily been capable of meet all the mandatory necessities.
“Slovakia has supported Bulgaria’s and Romania’s entry into the Schengen space from the very starting, and now this actuality has occurred. Hungary, inside its presidency within the Council of the EU, set it as a major aim; it was additionally current on the preliminary accession negotiations, and it succeeded,” she stated.
Kurilovská agrees with the European Fee’s view that the bigger Schengen is, the stronger the EU is.
“The bigger and wider the Schengen space is, the safer it’s and extra it permits for the free motion of products, companies, and other people. All public surveys present that it’s justified,” defined the State Secretary.
Nonetheless, some international locations, within the meantime, as a result of unlawful migration from third international locations, are extending border controls throughout the Schengen space, and others, just like the Netherlands, have simply launched them.
Kurilovská acknowledged that the Council of Ministers additionally handled this matter, and in line with her, the introduction of such controls means “a sure discomfort” inside Schengen.
“Subsequently, we should try for important safety and safety of the exterior borders and all of the information associated to it, such because the introduction of digitization, the implementation and use of all info techniques that we have now arrange. Slovakia is prepared for this,” Kurilovská acknowledged. (December 12)
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