On 31 March, Bulgaria and Romania become Schengen members: the Schengen rules will apply in both Member States including on issuing Schengen visas and controls at the internal air and sea borders will be lifted.

  • нердовіч@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    25 days ago

    I really should watch/read the news sometimes, totally missed that! So the Vienna-Bucharest night train will be a bit faster 😁

    • Levsgetso@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      ·
      edit-2
      25 days ago

      Nope, this “membership” is only for air and water travel. There are still border checks on land. A great victory, as the politicians said, indeed.

      • Pringles@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        25 days ago

        For now. Land borders is next on the agenda and the decision on when to lift them should be taken this year by the European Commission.

        • Levsgetso@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          25 days ago

          It should have never happened. Gradual Schengen entry like this is for new members, not countries who have been meeting the criteria for 12 years.

          The fact that countries like Austria can block others’ accession on blatant lies is beyond messed up.

          Meanwhile, the Kilometers-long lines of trucks are still at the border, sometimes spending days there. The only things that changed are the two minutes you save at the airport and the politicians bragging how they “got us in Schengen”.

          That was a shameful decision and a disgrace. The EU needs major reforms so countries like this can’t abuse their power or try to blackmail others, using Schengen.

          • Pringles@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            9
            ·
            25 days ago

            Austria still stuck in “great power diplomacy” even though they have become a shrimp on the international stage.

            • allrian@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              ·
              25 days ago

              Austria has major elections coming up. Seems the right wing politicians try to gain points by that

      • нердовіч@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        25 days ago

        Bummer. Now I wonder how thee process will be, I get a passport stamp for entry by train but no exit stamp at the airport? 🤔

  • petrescatraian@libranet.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    24 days ago

    …by air and sea only.

    Thanks, Nehammer! May you go to hell as a truck driver and spend your afterlife in an infinite queue at the border control!

    Edit: then turned back because you were carrying illegally cut wood!