European interior ministers on Thursday approved Croatia’s membership of the bloc’s border-free Schengen zone, eliminating checks at the frontiers of the Adriatic nation, one of Europe’s busiest tourist destinations.
“Finally,” Croatian interior minister Davor Božinović told N1 television in Brussels. “Croatian citizens are entering the largest zone of free movement in the world.”
But the bloc rejected bids from Balkan neighbours Romania and Bulgaria. Zagreb would have liked for Romania and Bulgaria to join this year as well, Božinović said, adding “the fact is that no consensus was reached”.
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