First Romania-Bulgaria flight takes place after partial Schengen entry

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The first Schengen zone flight between Romania and Bulgaria took place the day after the countries partially joined Europe’s ID-check-free travel zone.

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00:00 The first flight between Romania and Bulgaria as members of the EU's Schengen Zone has taken

00:08 place. The countries formally joined the EU's passport-free travel zone on Sunday, and the

00:13 inaugural internal flight left Sofia for Bucharest on Monday afternoon. It took years of negotiations

00:19 with other members before access was granted for sea and air travel. Road travellers will

00:24 still have to go through passport checks at land borders. Some 3.5 million people cross an internal

00:30 Schengen border every day.

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