Goodbye borders!

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Goodbye borders!

Dec 19, 2007
TBT Staff

HELLO SCHENGEN! The Baltics are set to join the border-free zone on Dec. 21 amid much fanfare and a visit to Tallinn by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

TALLINN - Border controls between the Baltic countries and their EU neighbors will disappear on Dec. 21 as the three nations, along with six other countries, will be admitted to the Schengen visa-free zone. The move, which Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip earlier called “the event of the year,” puts the Baltics inside a common land and sea border zone with 24 European states, however controls at airports will remain in place until March 30 to allow for technical changeovers. Integration i ...

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