site.btaMEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk on Bulgaria's Schengen Admission, Topical Issues

Speaking to young supporters of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) in the southwestern town of Yakoruda, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Co-President Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Renew Europe MEP, said that the true discussions in Bulgaria this spring will be about security, such as income, demographic policy and cohesion, Kyuchyuk's press service said.

"For years a national consensus was built on the topic of Schengen, we wanted full Schengen membership, but this is not possible to happen at once in terms of the present-day realities. It is wrong to say that we should not have accepted the offer of partial entry, because Romania would have accepted it. A border between Bulgaria and Romania would have been a disastrous political decision for Bulgaria. It would bring us to the outermost periphery of the EU. From now on, the sensible thing to do is to work in 2024 for a date in 2025, because the sugar-coated talk about our admission in June is false," the MEP was adamant. 

Kyuchyuk stressed that the current government is currently working to forge the national position in Bulgaria and to seek a consensus, so that all Bulgarian politicians to uphold it abroad.