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Romania's Parliament may block the 18 extra MEPs from taking their seats (Photo: IMF)

Romania targets new MEPs in expanding Schengen backlash

Romania's diplomatic offensive on entering the border-free Schengen zone has expanded to the Lisbon Treaty, with local lawmakers threatening to derail a Lisbon protocol on the appointment of 18 extra MEPs.

Speaking to the Romanian NewsIn news agency on Tuesday (4 January), Attila Korodi, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower chamber of the Romanian parliament, revealed that the assembly in December decided to postpone until February its ratification of a Lisbon protocol...

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Romania's Parliament may block the 18 extra MEPs from taking their seats (Photo: IMF)

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