Minister Atanas Ilkov and Minister Catalin Predoyu at exactly midnight on January 1, 2025 at the "Danube Bridge" border checkpoint (Ruse - Giurgiu) marks the full membership of Bulgaria and Romania in Schengen with the abolition of controls at internal land borders.
In the first minute of the New Year, the Ministers of Interior of Bulgaria and Romania symbolically lift the last closed border barrier between the two countries, BNT reported.