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Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the European Union’s border-free Schengen area after scrapping land border ...

Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union's Schengen free-travel area ...

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Romania and Bulgaria became full members of the Schengen zone on Wednesday, expanding the borderless area to 29 members and ...

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