Minister Boagiu says Bundesrat unanimously votes for Romania and Bulgaria’s EU Accession

Germany’s stance on Romania materialized in Bundesrat’s vote on Friday, unanimously in favour of Romania and Bulgaria’s EU joining, said Romania’s European Integration Minister Anca Boagiu, attending the debates over the two countries’ EU Accession Treaty, that the Upper Chamber of the Berlin-based Parliament unanimously ratified.

Romania intends to be a solid partner, the seventh power within the European Union, Boagiu said. According to her, Europe needs a solid partner and all the messages Romania and Bulgaria have been conveying today aim at this. Surely, the reform process must go on, because, Minister Boagiu said, citing again the interventions during the meeting, “both Europe and we are interested in it because it is a process beneficial to everybody.”
Some German MPs expressed a previously voiced stance, according to which the so-called protection measures in the fields of justice and home affairs should be activated at the accession moment, if shortcomings are not removed by year-end. Such measures would be to the benefit of the two acceding countries and not detrimental to them, but it is up to the EU Commission to decide on it, so far, Bundesrat members said.
Boagiu has been paying a visit to Germany during which she has attended, on Friday, the debates and the vote in the German Parliament’s Upper Chamber (Bundesrat) on Romania and Bulgaria’s EU Accession Treaty. The visit’s previous days scheduled meetings with officials of the German lands’ governments. This cooperation is an old one and its purpose is to present Romania the way it is, with both its achievements and its failures, Minister Boagiu said about the meetings she had.
Bundesrat, on Friday, has unanimously voted for Romania and Bulgaria’s EU Accession Treaty, a moment marking the end of the Treaty’s ratification process by the 25 EU member states. ROMPRES