Romania and Cyprus are demanding EU concessions in exchange for allowing in a set number of relocated asylum seekers.
On Monday (7 September), Romania’s prime minister Victor Ponta said he won’t accept relocated asylum seekers unless Romania is allowed to join the Schengen passport-free zone.
“Solidarity means both rights and obligations, so if they want us to have the same obligations, they have to give us the same rights”, he said.
Romania, along with Bulgaria, had hoped t...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.