The European Council has decided to enlarge the border-free Schengen area to include Bulgaria and Romania, the council’s Spanish presidency said Saturday. Controls on air and sea borders will be ...

The European Council has decided to enlarge the border-free Schengen area to include Bulgaria and Romania, the council’s Spanish presidency said Saturday. Controls on air and sea borders will be ...

The Schengen Area was established in 1985. Before Bulgaria and Romania’s admission, Schengen consisted of 23 of the 27 EU member countries, along with Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

Schengen area. Croatia will become its 27th country and the first to join since the area was expanded in 2011 to admit Liechtenstein. The EU said Schengen is the largest free-travel area in the world.

Bulgaria and Romania’s admission into passport-free open-border Schengen area, which has been postponed due to apprehensions regarding illegal immigration, arrives almost two decades since the ...

Bulgaria and Romania are holding ceremonies to mark their full membership in Europe's Schengen area, the culmination of years of negotiations by the Eastern European countries to join the ID check ...

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who has repeatedly declared that his country will join Schengen before the end of 2011, is already seeing his popularity drop ahead of presidential ...

Bulgaria and Romania could become full members of Europe's Schengen travel zone starting at the beginning of 2025, Hungarian officials said on Friday.. The two Balkan countries joined the European ...

Bulgaria has joined the Schengen area for free travel, but initially only by air and sea routes. This entails the elimination of border controls for air travel among member countries of the agreement.

Romania and Bulgaria partially joined Europe’s Schengen ID-check-free travel zone, marking a new step in the two countries’ integration with the European Union.

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