Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union's Schengen free-travel area ...

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The name Schengen zone comes from the eponymous village of Schengen in Luxembourg, where in 1985 five out of ten EU member states signed an agreement to create the zone. Later, Italy (1990), Spain and ...

Border controls within the Schengen Area were first removed in 1985 between France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Although Cyprus has not yet removed internal border checks ...

Romania and Bulgaria's shared journey to join the passport-free Schengen Area came to an end on Thursday morning as interior ministers from the European Union gave their final blessing to their ...

Schengen is the largest free travel area in the world. Border checks between France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were first dropped in 1985. The Schengen area now covers 29 ...

Romania, Bulgaria become full members of Schengen zone 12/12/2024 December 12, 2024 European Union interior ministers have decided to allow the two eastern European countries accession to the ...

Austria has withdrawn its opposition to Romania and Bulgaria becoming full members of Europe's Schengen free-travel area, the country's interior minister Gerhard Karner announced. This decision ...

This is a curious moment in the history of the Schengen area, named after the Luxembourg village where the dream of open European borders was first agreed 40 years ago next year. Enacted a decade ...