Austria rejected European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen’s call to lift its veto against Bulgaria and Romania joining the Schengen area, arguing that extending the visa-free zone currently makes no sense and that there is a need for more..
In a resolution adopted on Wednesday with 526 votes in favour, 57 votes against, and 42 abstaining, Parliament stresses that both countries have already fulfilled the necessary requirements to be admitted into Schengen. MEPs regret the Council’s..
The European Commission has ended the so-called Cooperation and Verification Mechanism which monitored the processes connected with the rule of law in this country and in Romania. The motives for this decision – that Bulgaria and Romania have..
The European institutions are getting ready to welcome Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen area as early as in 2023. Entry into the border-free area can be considered a certainty, writes euractiv.bg, citing diplomatic sources in Brussels and in..
The President of Croatia Zoran Milanović, who is on a visit to this country, declared Croatia’s support for Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen area. President Milanović and Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev reaffirmed their countries’ support..
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday there were no rigid timelines for Ukraine to join the European Union . After meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at an EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv she commented the country’s..
Greece is taking the initiative for Bulgaria and Romania’s faster accession to the Schengen area. This was made clear after a meeting between Interior Minister in the caretaker cabinet Ivan Demerdzhiev and Greece’s Minister of Migration and Asylum..
The advantages of Bulgaria’s joining the Eurozone by far outweigh the risks, and now, more than 20 years after the introduction of the currency board, when the Bulgarian Lev was first pegged to the Deutsche mark and then to the euro, many experts are..
In a comment on Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen area, made at the EU-Western Balkans summit in Tirana, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte stated that next year Bulgaria could take steps forward. “At this stage, it's..
During a telephone conversation on Friday, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that Bulgaria expects the results it has achieved in protecting the EU external borders to be acknowledged by all..
