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Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov fielding questions during his visit to Brussels (Photo: Statul Karabashev)

Bulgaria was not ready for the EU but will qualify for Schengen, interior minister says

Bulgaria was a case of EU enlargement gone wrong - but now it is a shining example of the firm will to fight crime and graft, and is ready to join the bloc's free-travel Schengen zone by next April, the country's popular interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has said.

In an interview with WAZ in Brussels on Tuesday (28 September), he said the expulsions of Bulgarian and Romanian Roma from France should not prevent the two Balkan neighbours from being admitted into the European area free o...

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Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov fielding questions during his visit to Brussels (Photo: Statul Karabashev)

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