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(Reuters) - Romania and Bulgaria will become full members of Europe'sSchengen free-travel area from next month, swelling the number of nations to 29, the EU said on Thursday.
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 ...
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 ...
Romania has an embassy in Sofia and three honorary consulates (in Burgas, Silistra and Vidin). There are 7,336 Bulgarians who are living in Romania and around 4,575 Romanians living in Bulgaria. The countries share 608 km of common borders, mostly along the Danube. Both countries are full members of the European Union and NATO.
Bulgaria and Romania became members on 1 January 2007, but the application of certain policy areas of the European Union to Bulgaria and Romania was deferred to a later date. These were: Schengen Area (see enlargement of the Schengen Area): partial application from March 31, 2024, full application from January 1, 2025
12 March – President Klaus Iohannis announces that he will run for Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. [1]31 March – Bulgaria and Romania partially join the Schengen Area, allowing travel by air and sea without border checks, Austria vetoed travel by land without border checks over fears that non-EU citizens could get easier access to the European Union.
“An enlarged Schengen area will make the EU stronger as a Union, internally and on the global stage,” the commission said, welcoming both countries. The Schengen area currently offers ...