Romania and Bulgaria have officially joined the Schengen Area. As of January 1, 2025, Romania and Bulgaria are a part of the Schengen Area, meaning there will be no more land border checks between ...

Bulgaria and Romania rang in the new year with full entry to the European Union’s passport-free Schengen area, promising a fresh boost to their economies. The lifting of controls at land borders ...

Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the Schengen zone, expanding the borderless area to 29 members and ending a 13-year wait for the two Eastern European countries. The expansion ...

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 ...

Romania, Bulgaria drop EU border checks, join Schengen 01/01/2025 January 1, 2025 Two EU nations, Romania and Bulgaria, are eliminating land border controls to the rest of the bloc after Austria ...

Jan 1 (Reuters) - 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 ...

On Wednesday, Bulgaria celebrated its entry into the Schengen area with ceremonies at key border crossings. At the Kulata-Promachonas checkpoint with Greece, caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. General view of the Bulgarian-Greek border checkpoint of Kulata in Bulgaria, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, after ...

The Roma community in Bulgaria is celebrating Vasilyevden /or Vasilitsa, Bango Vasili (literally the Lame Vasil)/, also known as the Roma New Year , reports the Amalipe Foundation. The Roma New Year ...

There are six long weekends in Bulgaria in 2025. March 3, Liberation Day – Bulgaria’s national day – is on a Monday. The Easter four-day weekend is from April 18 to 21. In 2025, Easter Sunday is on ...

“Many of these villages didn’t have proper water access in the summer and now they don’t have electricity in the winter,” the mayor of Lovech in north-central Bulgaria, Stratzimir ...