For Romania and Bulgaria, former Soviet Bloc countries that are now EU members, the light finally changed from red to green on Thursday as EU interior ministers agreed to let the two countries ...

The decision to add Bulgaria and Romania was unanimously approved by the European Council, the commission also said, noting that it had sent multiple “fact-finding missions” in 2022 and 2023 ...

Romania and Bulgaria, which joined the bloc in 2007, have been waiting ever since to fully access the so-called Schengen zone, which Europeans regularly cite as one of the biggest benefits of EU ...

Croatia -- which joined the bloc in 2013, six years after Romania and Bulgaria entered in 2007 -- was accepted fully in the Schengen zone in January 2023.

In Washington DC on Wednesday, Romania's Defence Minister Angel Tilvar and his Bulgarin counterpart signed a memorandum of understanding on the establishment of a Headquarters Regional Special ...

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Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria signed an agreement on Thursday on a joint plan to clear mines floating in the Black Sea as a result of the war in Ukraine, following months of talks between the NATO ...

The two countries were fully integrated into the Schengen Area on Jan. 1. Bulgaria and Romania have officially been welcomed into Europe’s border-free zone, becoming full members of the Schengen ...