Libera circulatie a romanilor in Europa si in lume

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,,JOINT HUNGARIAN, AUSTRIAN, ROMANIAN AND BULGARIAN DECLARATION DATED 22.11.2024"

On 4 January 2024, the Council Decision (EU) 2024/210 of 30 December 2023 on the full application of the provisions of the Schengen acquis in the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania entered into force. The Council Decision was also accompanied by a Joint Statement of Austria, Romania and Bulgaria on the continuation of joint efforts to fight irregular migration (complementary measures and commitments).

During the meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 10 October 2024 a State of Play on the full application of the Schengen acquis in Bulgaria and Romania took place. All sides confirmed progress with regard to the implementation of the Joint Statement and acknowledged a decrease of illegal movements as well as asylum applications on the relevant routes as a result of the jointly set measures.

FRONTEX-support on the external borders of Bulgaria and Romania is constantly extended, EU-financial support was significantly beefed up and consequently investments on the technical reinforcement of the borders is advancing (e.g. patrol vessels, all terrain patrol vehicles, unmanned aerial systems, motion detectors, thermal imaging cameras), the Schengen Regional Cooperation Initiative was initiated to improve information sharing and practical cooperation across borders, document advisors have been deployed at Sofia and Bucharest airport and the Dublin cooperation was significantly improved.

Consequently, in comparing the first three quarters of 2023 and 2024, illegal entries in Bulgaria have gone down by 47 %, in Romania by 53 % and in Austria by 67 %. In the same time period asylum applications in Bulgaria have decreased by 40 %, in Romania by 75 % and in Austria by 57,3 %.

The Hungarian Council Presidency, Romania, Bulgaria and Austria have on 22 November 2024 jointly acknowledge the progress reached in reducing illegal migration to Europe and the concerned Member States and have together agreed to

• continue the common endeavors to fight illegal migration to Europe and their countries,
• continue the joint efforts to fight irregular migration in accordance with the Joint Statement of Austria, Romania and Bulgaria dated 29 December 2023,
• do their utmost to prevent illegal onward transit of migrants through their countries and to smoothly conduct returns and transfers in accordance with the relevant agreements,
• to mitigate the potential change of migratory patterns that may arise as an immediate consequence of the absence of internal borders, continue conducting internal border controls by introducing border controls in accordance with Art. 25a (4) and (5) of the Schengen Borders Code at land borders between Hungary and Romania and Romania and Bulgaria for an initial period of at least six months to prevent any serious threat to public policy or internal security,
• in the spirit of solidarity continue supporting Bulgaria in protecting the EU external land border with Türkiye by deploying a multilateral police contingent of a 100 border guards (Austria 15, Bulgaria 25, Hungary 20 and Romania 40);

By concluding and implementing this declaration, the parties agreed to initiate the necessary steps for adoption of the formal Council decision on setting the date for the lifting of checks on persons at internal land borders with and between the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania, until the end of this year.


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