{"id":11642,"date":"2024-04-01T22:58:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T21:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=11642"},"modified":"2024-04-01T22:58:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T21:58:27","slug":"bulgaria-romania-partially-join-europes-schengen-zone-after-13-year-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/world-news\/bulgaria-romania-partially-join-europes-schengen-zone-after-13-year-wait\/2024\/04\/01\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria, Romania partially join Europe&#8217;s Schengen Zone after 13 year wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The two countries joined the Schengen area&#8217;s air and sea zones on Sunday after a 13-year wait<\/li>\n<li>Vienna argued would lead to more asylum seekers travelling into Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SOFIA, Bulgaria &#8211; In a significant milestone for Romania and Bulgaria, both countries have partially joined Europe\u2019s Schengen travel zone. This development represents a crucial step in their integration with the European Union (EU).<\/p>\n<p>The membership is partial, however, as a veto by Austria means the new membership will not apply to land routes, which Vienna argued would lead to more asylum seekers travelling into Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two countries joined the Schengen area&#8217;s air and sea zones on Sunday after a 13-year wait Vienna argued would lead to more asylum seekers travelling into Europe SOFIA, Bulgaria &#8211; In a significant milestone for Romania and Bulgaria, both countries have partially joined Europe\u2019s Schengen travel zone. This development represents a crucial step in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[8273],"tags":[8451,8452,8453,8454,379,3799,7603],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/OIP.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11644,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions\/11644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}