Bulgaria - January 01, 2025 Storyline: Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the European Union's border-free Schengen area on Wednesday after lifting land border controls.

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 midnight on ...

A joint military force from Bulgaria, Austria, Romania and Hungary began working to guard the Bulgarian-Turkish border. The ...

With Bulgaria's full integration into the Schengen Area, citizens now have the ability to travel freely to neighboring Greece and Romania, bypassing traditional border crossings.This change opens ...

The joint deployment of an additional 100 border police officers from four countries – Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria ...

A joint contingent of border security officers from Bulgaria, Austria, Romania, and Hungary will officially begin operations ...

Visiting Hungary as a teenager, opera singer Katalin Benedekffy used to have to wait up to a whole day at the border at her ...

Romania and Bulgaria became full members of Europe's so-called Schengen zone from January 1, when land border checks ceased. That ended years of waiting for the countries after they qualified to ...