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 ...

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 whose residents can ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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.

Romania, Bulgaria members of EU L.A. Times Archives Jan. 1, 2007 12 AM PT From Times Wire Reports ...

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 ...

Romania and Bulgaria have reached an agreement with Austria to join Europe's open-borders Schengen area by air and sea from March 2024, with talks set to continue next year about land borders, the ...

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 ...