NEW EASTERN EUROPEAN EU MEMBER STATES HAVE SPENT EURO MILLIONS ON SCHENGEN BORDER TECHNOLOGY
November 1st, 2008
BY MARK ROWE
ONE of the major elements of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union (EU) was its intended expansion to these new member states of the Schengen agreement, which phases out checks at shared borders and allows free movement for all within the EU.
Airports play a key role in the Schengen agreement, as like land borders with non-Schengen countries, they directly protect the external Schengen border.
On December 21, 2007, nine new countries joined the Schengen Area: Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia and the ...
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