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According to some, Juncker’s statement was a clear sign for removing trust from Mr Borissov, while others feel the EC president said nothing new and of consequence, so there is actually no news. This is not true, however. There is news and it is of paramount importance to something that has been in the centre of European politics for months now – the Schengen security space, of which the two states are not members yet, exactly due to their results on the CVM. In 2012, when the EC made its first summary of the work of the mechanism over the first five years of its functioning, The Netherlands and Finland blocked Romania's and Bulgaria’s accession to Schengen, because they thought the two were not ready, despite the EC and the EP repeated statements that the two countries fulfil the technical requirements. According to the Netherlands, however, the lack of progress on the fulfilment of CVM benchmarks is a valid enough argument for stopping their membership. The Netherlands stated it would need a minimum of two positive reports (this means stating progress) to lift its veto.
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