EU PREPARES TO EXTEND BORDERLESS ZONE EASTWARDS
November 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has cleared the path to extending the so-called 'Schengen' borderless zone within the EU to the eight former communist countries that joined the EU in 2004. Approving reforms made to the border controls these countries have with non-EU states, the council noted that a final Schengen expansion decision could come in December. This would remove existing border controls hindering hauliers driving from the old 15 member western European EU to Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, and ...
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