EU PREPARES FOR EXPANSION OF THE SCHENGEN BORDERLESS ZONE
November 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has prepared for formal approval in December of an expansion of the borderless Schengen zone to the 10 new member states that joined the EU in 2004. Ministers accepted that these countries had sufficiently upgraded their airport frontier controls for flights from non-EU countries to allow the removal next March of immigration controls for flights to and from other EU member states (except Britain, Ireland, Bulgaria and Romania who remain outside Schengen).
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THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has prepared for formal approval in December of an expansion of the borderless Schengen zone to the 10 new member states that joined the EU in 2004. Ministers accepted that these countries had sufficiently upgraded their airport frontier controls for flights from non-EU countries to allow the removal next March of immigration controls for flights to and from other EU member states (except Britain, Ireland, Bulgaria and Romania who remain outside Schengen).
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