On February 7, the Home Affairs session of the Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council took place in Bucharest in the context of the Romanian Presidency to the Council of the EU. Ministers discussed anti-terrorism initiatives, the strengthening of police cooperation, the Schengen area, migration, and asylum. Romanian Minister of Internal Affairs Carmen Dan expressed her concerns on populism, extremism and movements that aim do disrupt political cohesion within the EU. She also stated that “migration is supposed to represent a vector of development for each Member State and not an additional burden”. One of the priorities of the Romanian Presidency is to reduce irregular migration flows towards the EU and to reform the Common European Asylum System, as established in the European Migration Agenda of May 2015. Discussions on the Schengen area took an important place in the session. It was considered that conflicts and terrorist attacks in the word, the EU’s neighbourhood and the EU itself called for a revision of the functioning of the management of the EU’s internal security and the management of its external and internal borders, and with it, the free movement in it area. With the aim to increase internal security, modern technologies are to be used by national governments and law enforcement agencies, and cooperation between Member States should be strengthened. Finally, ministers from Member States indicated that the discussion about the future of Schengen needed to include Romania and Bulgaria’s situation, countries that have advocated for their accession to the Schengen in the past.