Bulgaria and Romania partially join Europe’s Schengen area | Migration News

Bulgaria and Romania partially join Europe’s Schengen area | Migration News

After a 13-year wait, Bulgaria and Romania have partially joined Europe’s Schengen area of free movement. The two countries reached an agreement late last year to join the continent’s free-travel area by air and sea after Austria opposed full membership, including land crossings, saying Romania and Bulgaria needed to do…

Photos: Romania’s annual Dancing Bears Festival to ‘ward off evil spirits’ | In Pictures

Photos: Romania’s annual Dancing Bears Festival to ‘ward off evil spirits’ | In Pictures

Centuries ago, people in what is now northeastern Romania donned bear skins and danced to fend off evil spirits. That custom is today known as the Dancing Bears Festival, drawing crowds of tourists every December. Hundreds of people of all ages, clad in bear costumes, dance every year around Christmas to the…