Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania, alongside Cyprus and Ireland, represent the only EU member states outside of the border-free Schengen area. In early July, the European Parliament (EP) voted overwhelmingly in favour of Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania...
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A quick return to a fully functional Schengen area is needed to safeguard freedom of movement and ensure the EU’s economic recovery, says the European Parliament’s...
Bucharest’s Henri Coanda Airport (or Otopeni, as it is still almost universally known) has never been one of the most agreeable places in Romania. Undersized and...
Croatia set to assume EU’s rotating presidency at a difficult time for both the country and the bloc
The first week of 2020 is set to be a busy one for Croatia. On January 1, the country assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, while on...
News last month that Bulgaria had met the European Commission’s criteria for the lifting of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) and – implicitly...
Croatia is ready to join the Schengen area, the European Commission has confirmed. Based on the results of the country’s Schengen evaluation process initiated in...
The Czech Republic received the highest number of Schengen visa applications of any emerging Europe country in 2018, new data from Schengen Visa Info has revealed...
The European parliament has voted by an overwhelming majority to admit Bulgaria and Romania to the passport-free Schengen travel area. Specifically, MEPs voted to adopt...
Manfred Weber, the European People’s Party presidential candidate for the European Commission, has claimed that Bulgaria will partially enter the Schengen Area in 2019...
The case of activist Lyudmyla Kozlovska, president of the Polish-based human rights NGO Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF), who was expelled from the EU by the Polish...
With almost 1.6 million applications in 2017, the twelve countries of emerging Europe whose citizens needed visas to visit the 26 Schengen countries in 2017 accounted...
In January 2018, eleven years after joining the European Union (EU), Bulgaria assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU — an institution...
