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This entitles Bulgarian and Romanian nationals to free movement around the whole European Union.
Permission to work is not required in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden. -
European Commission calls on Bulgaria and Romania to do more to combat corruption.
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EU threatens to withhold farm aid if Romania does not reform its agricultural payments system.
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The interim report says Bulgaria and Romania have failed to show convincing results in their anti-graft drives.
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The reason is the high levels of corruption in the traffic agency.
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The European Commission suspends EU aid worth hundreds of millions of euros after series of reports criticise Bulgarian government for failing to take effective action against corruption and organised crime.
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European Commission permanently strips Bulgaria of half of the aid frozen in July over what it says is the government's failure to tackle corruption and organised crime.
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EU expresses concern over reliability of Bulgarian national statistics and says these may have to be subjected to EU scrutiny.
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EU calls on Bulgaria and Romania to take urgent action to tackle crime and corruption.
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France and Germany block Bulgaria and Romania from joining Schengen passport-free zone.
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The Netherlands plans to delay until next year any decision on whether to let Bulgaria and Romania join Europe's passport-free Schengen zone, despite a European Parliament vote to let the two countries into Schengen.
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Bulgarian and Romanian nationals will have the right to work without work permission in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Malta, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Romanian nationals will have the right to work without work permission in Spain.