SECOND SCHENGEN EU BORDER INFORMATION SYSTEM APPROVED BY MINISTERS

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW improved computerised information system helping police the unified Schengen border system for most European Union (EU) countries (not including Britain and Ireland) has been received approval by the EU Council of Ministers. The system with "new technologies and added functionalities" will be rolled out in 2009 and its development will be funded by EU budgets.

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