ICELAND AND NORWAY ARE EFFICIENT MEMBERS OF SCHENGEN ZONE – DESPITE LACK OF INFLUENCE OVER ITS RULES
April 1st, 2009
BY MARK ROWE THE AIRPORTS of Norway and Iceland are well suited to dealing with the impact of border-free travel with each other and many member states of the European Union (EU), having joined the EU's frontierless Schengen-zone in 1999, abolished all border checks for travel to member countries in December 2001. Their membership of Schengen is unusual, because as non-EU countries, their governments cannot influence Schengen regulations directly. However, a spokesman for Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs described this agreement as Norway's most important ...
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