Schengen welcomes us partially with air and sea traffic from March 31, but a last-minute official announcement from the Ministry of Interior about when Romania will join Schengen and with the land borders, comes to deflate a little the hopes of those who thought that everything would happen very quickly, and maybe from 2025 you will be able to travel freely anywhere.
Schengen could remain blocked by land even at the beginning of 2025, and this is because we do not know when Romania will join the Schengen Area, everything depends on Karl Nehammer, the Austrian chancellor holding the keys to the accession, and the minister Catalin Predoiu does not give us too much hope that this will happen very soon, unfortunately for us.
Schengen is the largest free international traffic zone in Europe and one of the largest in the whole world, but Romania's accession remains only a hope that has extremely low chances of being fulfilled, as long as Karl Nehammer refuses to do anything but to block our membership for reasons that are not really that real.
"It's a feasible goal, but I wouldn't want to advance data, make predictions here. I'd rather focus on building this moment. I did the same last year. I never advanced, even though I had my own internal goal. I preferred to build with the Austrian partners, with the European ones, because they are very important and not only them.
A result and here the result came, it's true, on the last day of the year, but it came. This is what we are doing, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we are building, building with the Austrian partners, with the European partners, with the other partners of Romania, gradually, progressively, a result. says Catalin Predoiu."
