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eKathimerini (19 December 2023)

Hungary will lift its objection to Bulgaria joining Europe’s passport-free Schengen zone after the Bulgarian parliament formally confirms its scrapping of an extra tax on Russian gas shipments, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.

“I was informed by my Bulgarian colleague that yesterday the Bulgarian parliament scrapped this law,” Szijjarto said in a video on his Facebook page.

He said that once the law was published on Friday as expected in the parliament’s legislative periodical, Hungary would drop its objection and ask the European Commission to halt an infringement procedure that Budapest had initiated.

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