Two MEPs Insulted Bulgaria and Romania at the Schengen debate

The EC hopes that the EU Council will take the historic decision in December.

Bulgaria and Romania fulfill all the criteria for joining Schengen. And for 11 years now. This was the joint position of the European Commission and all parties in the European Parliament, expressed during a debate in Strasbourg.

Surprisingly, however, two MEPs from Germany used their allotted 1 minute to insult both countries. Against the background of almost identical statements about how it is high time for the citizens of Bulgaria and Romania to travel freely, the MP from the party "Identity and Democracy" (ID) Gunnar Beck explicitly emphasized that, according to "Transparency International", the two countries are not only not making progress in the fight against corruption, but the situation is even getting worse. "Instead of expanding Schengen with 3 corrupt countries (a decision is also expected for Croatia), we must urgently rethink it by expanding internal border checks and effective protection of external ones," Beck said. According to him, the acceptance of both countries will increase mass migration in the EU, and they are still susceptible to corruption.

"To my colleague from Germany, I want to say that all the channels for illegal migrants in Europe are German", answered the Bulgarian MEP Andrey Slabakov.

Another German, also from ID, continued the provocations by telling how, traveling through Romania on his way to Ukraine, he was greatly surprised by the poor infrastructure.

"Romania is the wild west of Europe

Wild west in the middle of Europe. How is it possible that this country is a member of the EU? Ukraine used to have much better infrastructure and order....