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The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, congratulates Croatia on joining Europe's border check-free Schengen area but expresses disappointment after accession bids by Bulgaria and Romania were blocked in an EU ministers' meeting."You deserve to be full members of Schengen, you deserve to have access to the free movement in the Schengen area," she says. SOUNDBITE
The first Austrian voters head to a polling station in Vienna to cast their ballots in the last day of European Parliament elections. Voting takes place in 21 EU member countries, with the bloc facing a range of challenges, including the ongoing war in Ukraine, global trade and industrial tensions, a climate emergency and a West that, within months, may have to adapt to a new Donald Trump presidency. IMAGES
Bulgaria's parliament votes to approve the lifting of the country's veto on opening EU accession talks with North Macedonia, with 170 votes in favour, 37 against and 21 abstentions. The proposal paves the way for the government to unblock the start of negotiations in exchange for EU guarantees that North Macedonia will meet Bulgaria's demands on long-running historical and linguistic disputes. IMAGES
Incumbent president Rumen Radev casts his vote in Bulgaria's presidential runoff. He faces off against academic Anastas Gerdjikov after neither could secure an outright majority in the first round of voting last weekend. IMAGES
Polls in Bulgaria have opened, as the county votes to elect their president, a largely ceremonial role that the incumbent has transformed and put at the heart of the struggle against corruption in the EU's poorest country. IMAGES
In a Sofia polling station, the last voters put their ballots in the ballot box and election officials begin counting votes in Bulgaria's third general election this year, as the country fights its deadliest coronavirus wave. IMAGES
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