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The European Council for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA), which is to meet on March 7, will not decide on the applications of Romania and Bulgaria to join the Schengen Area.
Decisions affecting the border-free area have to be unanimous. And Germany and Finland have already announced that they would veto the accession of the two countries, which they insist continue to be marked by a high level of corruption.
Finnish Interior Minister, Päivi Räsänen, even went as far as to declare that Bulgaria and Romania were too easily allowed into the the EU.
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