The decision on the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to Schengen would not have been possible without the multiple reforms in the field of justice and without effective border protection, Bulgaria’s Minister of Justice Atanas Slavov said on Facebook..
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariya Gabriel thanked all those who contributed to Bulgaria's Schengen accession, starting with air and sea borders. Mariya Gabriel pointed out that Bulgaria demonstrates on a daily basis its..
The government is turning Bulgaria into a huge refugee camp, the chairman of the "Vazrazhdane" party, Kostadin Kostadinov said. "In exchange for air and water Schengen, we have agreed to take back illegal migrants who have already passed through our..
Three buses part of organized excursions from Bulgaria to Vienna have been stuck at the Serbian-Hungarian border since 4 o'clock in the morning on Saturday. There are children among the passengers. “As far as I understand, there is a pregnant woman in..
Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said today that "visible progress in the protection of the EU's external borders must be made in order for Bulgaria and Romania to be admitted to the Schengen area. "This means that the deployment of the military..
No additional conditions have been set for Bulgaria to join Schengen by air and sea in March , Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said. Together with Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariya Gabriel, Nikolay Denkov attended a meeting with..
A date for the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the land-border Schengen area has not been specified with Austria or the European Commission. This is what Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov said, refuting information that emerged earlier, according to..
Austria has assumed the commitment to continue the negotiations for the opening of the land borders, said Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov at today’s cabinet sitting in a comment on Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen area. Land Schengen..
Political agreement was reached on 23 December with the Austrian and the Bulgarian interior ministry on enlarging the Schengen area as of March, 2024, to include Romania and Bulgaria by air and sea. This was announced officially on the Romanian..
After the parliament of the Netherlands removed all obstacles in the way to Bulgaria’s full entry into the Schengen area definitively, Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov commented that the Netherlands’ decision places Bulgaria in a better position in..