罗马尼亚和保加利亚正式加入申根区

从今天（2024 年 3 月 31 日）开始，罗马尼亚和保加利亚加入了欧盟的申根区。这意味着从其他申根国家乘坐飞机或海上交通前往这两个国家的旅客将不再需要过境检查。然而，对于这两个国家的陆路边境交通，仍然需要进行护照或身份证检查。

下面是欧盟的声明：

The border-free Schengen Area guarantees free movement to more than 425 million EU citizens, along with non-EU nationals living in the EU or visiting the EU as tourists, exchange students or for business purposes (anyone legally present in the EU) . Free movement of persons enables every EU citizen to travel, work and live in an EU country without special formalities. Schengen underpins this freedom by enabling citizens to move around the Schengen Area without being subject to border checks.Today, the Schengen Area encompasses most EU countries, except for Cyprus and Ireland. Bulgaria and Romania became the newest Member States to join the Schengen area as of 31 March 2024, any person crossing the internal air and sea borders will no longer be subject to checks. Nevertheless, a unanimous decision on the lifting of checks on persons at the internal land borders is still expected to be taken by the Council at a later date. Additionally, the non-EU States Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein also have joined the Schengen Area.

现在，申根区包含了大多数欧盟国家（塞浦路斯和爱尔兰除外）。罗马尼亚和保加利亚成为最新加入申根区的成员国。然而，关于解除内部陆地边境的个人检查是否被取消的决定，仍然需要欧盟理事会在以后的日期上做出一致的决定。

对于计划前往欧洲旅游的朋友们来说，这是个好消息！现在我们又有两个国家可以考虑申请签证了。如果其他申根国家领事馆约不到签证的话，可以试试看这两个国家。

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