Romania is expecting a clear signal from the EU in the year to come over its accession to the Schengen area, before it takes the rotating EU presidency on 1 January 2019.
"We simply have to take a decision," EU affairs minister Victor Negrescu told a group of journalists, including EUobserver, in Bucharest.
The Romanian government says that it meets the technical criteria for the accession, and that the EU is holding back the decision for political reasons.
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