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Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the European Union’s border-free Schengen area after scrapping land border controls in the bloc. The expansion was officially introduced at ...
(Reuters) -Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union's Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose ...
Checks at land borders with Bulgaria and Romania will stop from Jan. 1 after Austria dropped a veto it had maintained on grounds they needed to do more to stop illegal immigration. While air and ...
Romania and Bulgaria are the newest members of the Schengen Area, with border controls lifted for air and sea travel on 31 March 2024 and land border controls lifted effective 1 January 2025, [17] [18] [19] more than 17 years after they acceded to the European Union.
Before Bulgaria and Romania’s admission, it was comprised of 23 of the 27 EU member countries, along with Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Around 3.5 million people cross an internal border each day. Austria vetoed Romania and Bulgaria’s admission into the Schengen zone at the end of 2022 but allowed Croatia full accession ...
On 8 December 2022, the Justice and Home Affairs Council voted to admit Croatia to the Schengen Area, effective from 1 January 2023. [19] On 30 December 2023, the Justice and Home Affairs Council agreed to partially include Bulgaria and Romania in the Schengen Area, with air and maritime border checks lifted from 31 March 2024. [20]
On 1 August 2018, Bulgaria and Romania gained full access to SIS. [16] On 1 January 2021, Ireland joined the law enforcement aspect, [3] with full access to SIS for law enforcement purposes from 15 March 2021. [17] On 3 May 2022, the European Parliament approved a proposal to give Cyprus full access to SIS.
After years of negotiations to join the Schengen area, there is now free access for travelers arriving by air or sea from both countries. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed the ...