05.12.07: Countdown to big bang enlargement of Schengen zone begins - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Dec 07
  

  Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

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  • he EU's border- and passport-free Schengen zone is going to see its biggest ever enlargement in two weeks time, as interior ministers are set to give their final blessing to the move on Thursday (6 November).
  • Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - which all joined the EU in 2004 - are part of this latest enlargement.
     
     Checks at internal land and sea borders will be abolished on 21 December, with air borders to follow in March 2008.

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