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Cash poor Romania and Bulgaria have spent more than E1bn/$1.4bn to beef-up their borders so they could soon participate in the EU's desirable Schengen/visa free travel zone.
It now seems...highly unlikely.
Blame a perfect storm of negatives: still rampant border corruption, growing immigration fears, nascent nationalism...and the current negative image in the Eurozone of their neighbor Greece.
“It is nice to have a machine to check if there is an illegal person in the back of a truck,” said Bulgaria's Dutch ambassador. “But if you can pay 500 euros to someone to look the other way, it makes no sense at all.
“When you give the key to your common home to someone else, you want to be sure that this person is 100 percent reliable and obeys all the rules.”
