NINE NEW COUNTRIES JOIN THE SCHENGEN ZONE
armradio.am
21.12.2007 10:25
Celebrations have been held after midnight to mark nine new states
joining a European border-free zone.
The Schengen agreement, which allows passport-free travel across the
area, now embraces 24 nations.
Some 2,000 people celebrated with the EU anthem, Beethoven’s Ode
to Joy, and fireworks in the town of Frankfurt on Oder at Germany’s
border with Poland.
The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta,
Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia joined the zone.