By Beatriz Santos Mayo Introduction Nowadays, you can travel from Paris to Barcelona and from Milan to Munich without having your passport stamped. Since 1995, the Schengen Agreement has enabled over 450 million people to study, work, and travel freely across the European continent without requiring passport checks at internal borders. However, several member statesContinue reading “Passport, please? The new border checks”
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A New Chapter for Schengen
By Nina Cullen After more than a decade of debate and opposition, EU interior ministers decided on December 12, 2024, to lift internal land border controls with and between Bulgaria and Romania, allowing them to join the Schengen Zone fully. Starting January 1, 2025, Romania and Bulgaria will officially become full members, marking the endContinue reading “A New Chapter for Schengen”