Bulgaria and Romania belong fully to the Schengen area.
Removing internal controls at land borders is the last hurdle.
I welcome the positive outcome of informal discussions in Budapest today.
@EUCouncil formal decision is next.
Let 2025 see Schengen become stronger. pic.twitter.com/zHJrg9HzFw
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) November 22, 2024
This is the end of a long wait for the two former communist countries, which are among the poorest in the EU. They have met the technical criteria since 2011, but “each time, member countries have expressed objections, recalled analyst Valentin Naumscu. Over the years, this problem became a source of frustration, which anti-European parties exploited to denounce the unfair treatment of Romania, he explained, citing as an example the recent presidential elections (which have since been annulled) in which a far-right candidate unexpectedly emerged victorious.
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