AUSTRIA DROPS VETO ON BULGARIA, ROMANIA FULLY JOINING SCHENGEN TRAVEL ZONE
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10.12.2024


Reuters (9 December 2024)

 

Austria is dropping its veto on Romania and Bulgaria becoming full members of Europe's Schengen free-travel area, its interior ministry said on Monday, paving the way for European Union interior ministers to approve the move at a meeting on Thursday.

Romania and Bulgaria, both EU and NATO members, partly joined Schengen in March, after an agreement with Austria which initially opposed their joining on the grounds they needed to do more to prevent illegal immigration.

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