罗马尼亚“入申”凸显欧盟新老成员矛盾 Threat to stop Romania joining Schengen fuels tension

The European Union faced the prospect of escalating tensions between new and old members after Romania’s president accused France and Germany of “an act of discrimination” by blocking the coun- try’s entry into Europe’s border-free Schengen area.

罗马尼亚总统指责法、德两国阻止罗马尼亚加入申根区是“一种歧视行为”。欧盟(EU)新老成员国之间的紧张局势可能升级。

Traian Basescu told reporters on Wednesday that Romania had met all technical conditions for entry and argued that the introduction of conditions would breach European law and create “an unacceptable precedent”.

特拉扬•伯塞斯库(Traian Basescu)周三对记者表示，罗马尼亚已满足加入申根区的所有技术条件。他认为，增加条件将违反欧洲法律，并开创“一个令人无法接受的先例”。

“We will not accept discrimination from anybody, even from the EU’s most powerful states,” he said.

“我们不会接受任何人的歧视，即使是欧盟最具权势的国家，”他表示。

The anger comes after the interior ministers of Germany and France wrote to EU officials saying that slow progress on judicial reforms, fighting corruption and “alarming organised crime” made them unable to back Romania and Bulgaria’s Schengen membership, which was scheduled to be voted on in March.

此前，德国和法国的内务部长致函欧盟官员，称由于罗马尼亚在司法改革、反腐败和“警告有组织的犯罪”方面进展缓慢，他们无法支持该国和保加利亚成为申根成员国。有关两国入申的投票定于明年3月举行。

According to EU officials, the Franco-German letter came after Mr Basescu had made a personal appeal for Schengen membership to fellow European heads of government at last week’s summit in Brussels, although the issue was not on the agenda.

欧盟官员透露，法德联名致函之前，伯塞斯库上周在布鲁塞尔举行的峰会上，就入申问题以个人名义向其它欧洲政府首脑发出了呼吁，尽管该问题并不在议程之上。

The letter added to tensions between western and eastern EU members. France and Germany last week sided with Britain to freeze the EU budget for the next decade, a move that would have disproportionate effect on new member states in the east, who are heavy recipients of EU development funds.

这封信加剧了欧盟东西方成员国间的紧张局势。法国和德国上周支持英国的建议，冻结欧盟未来十年的预算。对于大量接纳欧盟发展资金的东欧新成员国而言，预算冻结带来的影响会大大超过此举对其它国家的影响。

In addition, it comes as Hungary is set to become only the third former communist country to assume the EU’s six-month rotating presidency in January. Hungarian officials have said that Schengen membership for Bulgaria and Romania is one of the priorities for their presidency.

此外，明年1月起，匈牙利将担任为期6个月的欧盟轮值主席国一职——前社会主义国家担任欧盟轮值主席国，这才是第三个。匈牙利官员已表示，保加利亚和罗马尼亚加入申根区，将成为其任职期间的要务之一。

An EU official said Hungary was angered by the timing of the move by France and Germany, but a Hungarian diplomat said they would continue to push for Bulgarian and Romanian inclusion.

一位欧盟官员表示，匈牙利对法国和德国的行动时机感到恼火，但一位匈牙利外交官员表示，他们将继续争取保加利亚和罗马尼亚入申。