Reuters (22 October 2019)
The European Commission recommended on Tuesday that Croatia joins the border-free Schengen area, more than four years after the Balkan country applied for membership.
Croatia became an EU member in 2013 but to join the Schengen area it had to convince Brussels that it was able to effectively manage the bloc’s external border, a particularly sensitive issue since Europe’s 2015 migrant crisis.
Membership of the Schengen zone is expected to benefit the Croatian economy and its tourism sector which accounts for nearly one fifth of the country’s output, as checks to the cross-border movement of people would be removed.
“Croatia has taken the measures to ensure that the necessary conditions are met (to join Schengen),” the EU commissioner for migration Dimitris Avramopoulos told a news conference in Strasbourg.
The decision to allow Croatia to join the Schengen area must be upheld by all EU governments. France last week blocked the opening of EU membership talks with North Macedonia and Albania despite the commission’s recommendation to begin negotiations.
To read the rest of the article, please click https://www.reuters.com/article/us-croatia-eu-schengen/croatia-ready-to-join-border-free-schengen-area-eu-commission-says-idUSKBN1X11R1
No comments yet.
- SÁNCHEZ AND TORRA STEP UP WAR OF WORDS ON CATALONIA Europe - EU 24.10.2019
- IRAQ VIOLATED HUMAN RIGHTS IN PROTEST CRACKDOWN - U.N. MISSION Iraq 24.10.2019
- JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA AGREE ON NEED TO COOPERATE ON NORTH KOREA Asia - Pacific 24.10.2019
- ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISITS JAPANESE NUCLEAR REGULATION AUTHORITY The Caucasus and Turkish-Armenian Relations 24.10.2019
- ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN FMS TO MEET IN BRATISLAVA The Caucasus and Turkish-Armenian Relations 24.10.2019
-
Türk-Ermeni İlişkileri Üzerine Ömer Engin Lütem Konferansları 2023 -
Türk-Ermeni İlişkileri Üzerine Ömer Engin Lütem Konferansları 2022 -
RADİKAL ERMENİ UNSURLARCA GERÇEKLEŞTİRİLEN MEZALİMLER VE VANDALİZM -
PATRIOTISM PERVERTED -
MEN ARE LIKE THAT -
BAKÜ-TİFLİS-CEYHAN BORU HATTININ YAŞANAN TARİHİ -
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS ON THE EVENTS OF 1915 -
FAKE PHOTOS AND THE ARMENIAN PROPAGANDA -
ERMENİ PROPAGANDASI VE SAHTE RESİMLER -
Türk-Ermeni İlişkileri Üzerine Ömer Engin Lütem Konferansları 2021 -
A Letter From Japan - Strategically Mum: The Silence of the Armenians -
Japonya'dan Bir Mektup - Stratejik Suskunluk: Ermenilerin Sessizliği -
Türk-Ermeni Uyuşmazlığı Üzerine Ömer Engin Lütem Konferansları 2020 -
Anastas Mikoyan: Confessions of an Armenian Bolshevik -
Sovyet Sonrası Ukrayna’da Devlet, Toplum ve Siyaset - Değişen Dinamikler, Dönüşen Kimlikler -
Türk-Ermeni Uyuşmazlığı Üzerine Ömer Engin Lütem Konferansları 2019 -
Türk-Ermeni Uyuşmazlığı Üzerine Ömer Engin Lütem Konferansları 2018 -
Ermeni Sorunuyla İlgili İngiliz Belgeleri (1912-1923) - British Documents on Armenian Question (1912-1923) -
Turkish-Russian Academics: A Historical Study on the Caucasus -
Gürcistan'daki Müslüman Topluluklar: Azınlık Hakları, Kimlik, Siyaset -
Armenian Diaspora: Diaspora, State and the Imagination of the Republic of Armenia -
Ermeni Sorunu Temel Bilgi ve Belgeler (2. Baskı)
-
CONFERENCE TITLED “HUNGARY’S PERSPECTIVES ON THE TURKIC WORLD"