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A pernicious political crisis was ignited in Romania by the Biden administration in early December when Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted “large-scale and well-funded” Russian ...

Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the Schengen zone, expanding the borderless area to 29 members and ending a 13-year wait for the two Eastern European countries. The expansion ...

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 ...

Romania, Bulgaria drop EU border checks, join Schengen 01/01/2025 January 1, 2025 Two EU nations, Romania and Bulgaria, are eliminating land border controls to the rest of the bloc after Austria ...

Police Lieutenant General Janos Balogh, head of the National Police Headquarters, and Chief Inspector Cornel-Laurian Stoica of the Romanian Border Police opened the state border between Hungary and ...

Jan 1 (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 ...

Celebrations and ceremonies marked the January 1 2025 full integration of Bulgaria and Romania into the Schengen visa zone, as the countries’ land borders were included, following the admission of ...

Romania and Bulgaria had met the Schengen zone's technical requirements for membership since 2011. But "member states objected every time" they tried to join, analyst Valentin Naumescu told AFP.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. General view of the Bulgarian-Greek border checkpoint of Kulata in Bulgaria, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, after ...

Shortly before 6 p.m., revelers lined Tremont Street, waving glow sticks and party lights, ahead of the First Night Parade. Heather and Nick Demarkis of Beverly watched near Boston Common.