Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union's Schengen free-travel area ...

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The name Schengen zone comes from the eponymous village of Schengen in Luxembourg, where in 1985 five out of ten EU member states signed an agreement to create the zone. Later, Italy (1990), Spain and ...

The jewel is starting to lose some of its luster, however. Luxembourg's interior minister, Leon Gloden, is critical of those Schengen nations that have reintroduced border checks in response to ...

As of 1 January 2025, Romania and Bulgaria will officially become full-time members of the Schengen Area ... Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Several other agreements followed ...

Bulgaria and Romania, both members of the European Union since 2007, were partially integrated into the Schengen in March, opening up travel by air and sea without border checks. Austria's ...

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Border controls within the Schengen Area were first removed in 1985 between France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Although Cyprus has not yet removed internal border checks ...

Romania and Bulgaria's shared journey to join the passport-free Schengen Area came to an end on Thursday morning as interior ministers from the European Union gave their final blessing to their ...

The EU is expanding its free-movement zone to include the two Balkan countries – which will scrap remaining border controls with the rest of the Schengen states on January 1, 2025. Romanian ...

known as the Schengen area, by lifting land border controls from next year. ( AP Photo/Valentina Petrova) Romanian Minister of Home Affairs Catalin Predoiu, left, speaks with Luxembourg’s Interior ...

Romania and Bulgaria will as of Jan. 1 become full members of the Schengen free-travel zone, EU interior ministers agreed Thursday. “After ‘Schengen Air’, ‘Schengen Land’ is now open to Romania and ...