Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg on Saturday said she feared for Europe’s borderless Schengen zone and urged countries to shore up their external frontiers in the face of the migrant crisis. “The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December of last year, the interior ministries of both Romania and Bulgaria announced that the countries would be joining the ...

The question of whether Cyprus should join Europe’s border-free Schengen zone will be effectively placed before the Council of the European Union in September, with the European Commission having ...

Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday voiced support for introducing border controls within the Schengen Area with Spain following the recent surge in irregular migrant arrivals to the ...

Bulgaria marks two years in the Schengen area, following a phased entry that began on 31 March 2024, when the country joined the world’s largest free movement zone for air and sea travel together with ...

Two more nations have officially joined Europe’s Schengen Travel Zone. Bulgaria and Romania have officially been welcomed into the club. The Schengen Travel Zone was set up to encourage more travel in ...

European Federation of Journalists urged states in the Schengen border control-free area to end what it called a “de facto visa embargo” on Turkish journalists, describing it as discriminatory.

Four eastern EU member states on Thursday rejected the idea of cutting the 26-member passport-free Schengen zone down to include fewer countries as a way to cope with the refugee and migrant crisis.

EU and Schengen-associated consulates received nearly 12 million applications for short-stay visas in 2025, a 1.8% rise from 11.7 million in 2024 and a more substantial 15.5% jump from 10.3 million in ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary, December 21 (UNHCR) - With fireworks and the symbolic dismantling of border checkpoints across Eastern Europe, nine of the newest European Union member nations joined the Schengen ...

The seemingly endless queues at border crossings, immigration officials studying your documents, the restrictions to movement within Europe. These are all things which, for many Europeans, belong to ...