Interior Minister Nikos Nouris, who is in Brussels today to attend the EU Internal Affairs Council meeting, made the following statement to the media on the sidelines of the Council's proceedings:
"Today was not the best day for European solidarity. The decision not to include Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen area, but even more so the reluctance of a number of Member States to promote in the European Parliament the Regulation on the instrumentalisation of migration, are actions that do not serve European solidarity. Particularly on the issue of the Instrumentalisation Regulation, which is an extremely important Regulation for Cyprus, it again leaves Turkey out of the picture, and this is something that is of particular concern to us.
I would like to hope that the continuation of the negotiations that has been decided, which will obviously take place during the Swedish Presidency, will provide an opportunity for a number of Member States to change their position and promote this Regulation.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Czech Presidency for its strong support for what Cyprus has advocated."
For the video of the statement, click here.
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