Răzvan Nicolescu is a former Romanian energy minister and current president of the Clean Energy and Climate Change Association. The NGO he founded is the author of a petition calling for Romania and Bulgaria to be admitted to the Schengen area, the theses of which were supported by over 80% of MEPs on 12 July 2023, thus the petition becoming transformed into an EU resolution that condemns Austria. In October 2023 Nicolescu announced that his NGO had attacked Austria in the European Court of Justice. Then Nicolescu announced quoted by Romanian media such as g4media that his NGO would request the revolting of the EU Council decision from 8 December 2022, which left Bulgaria and Romania outside of the Schengen area and would request that Austria respects the environmental obligations of the EU under the Convention from Aarhus, because the trucks who are fixed on Bulgarian and Romanian Schengen borders for days before passing emit a lot of additional and unnecessary air pollution. He is currently a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

TLDR: Austria's refusal to accept Bulgaria and Romania into the Schengen Zone is unfair and goes against EU principles, and the European Commission should take action to uphold these principles.

It is a pro-EU act to resist the Austrian abuse against Bulgaria and Romania over Schengen

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