The arrest of Varna's Mayor Blagomir Kotsev on embezzlement charges has sparked a series of protests in Bulgaria and across ...

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 ...

Die Welt published an in-depth analysis focused on the rising influence of Bulgarian oligarch and politician Delyan Peevski, ...

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.

The European Union ministers has agreed to let Bulgaria and Romania fully integrate into Europe's ID-check-free travel zone known as the Schengen area by lifting land border controls next year.

Two Eastern European nations, Romania and Bulgaria, became full members of the European Schengen Area on January 1, 2025. The two countries, which both joined the European Union in 2007, had been ...

Austria vetoed Romania and Bulgaria’s admission into the Schengen zone at the end of 2022 but allowed Croatia full accession. Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU in 2007 and Croatia in 2013.

Both Bulgaria and Romania will be joining the Schengen Area ‘by air and by sea’ by 31 March. This means that their air and sea borders will be included in 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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