On December 30, the Spanish EU presidency announced that Romania and Bulgaria will be partially integrated into the Schengen area of free movement in March. Romania and Bulgaria, both EU members since 2007, had been rejected a year previously from joining the vast Schengen zone, within which more than 400 million people can travel freely without internal border controls. Although the European Commission and the European Parliament have been assuring for years that both countries are prepared to
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