Word: schengen
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...strengthen its reach as a global power. In return, Iceland can expect accession talks to move at a double-quick pace. As a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), Iceland already has access to the E.U.'s single market. It is also part of Europe's border-free Schengen zone, and virtually all the other E.U. programs open to non-member states. Around two-thirds of all Icelandic law is already in line with E.U. rules...
...Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini said the electronic register scheme - which could be in place by 2015 - was needed to protect the E.U.'s external borders now that travelers can cross national boundaries without checks between the 25 E.U. countries that are part of the border-free 'Schengen' zone. (E.U. members Ireland and the U.K. aren't in the zone, which does include non-members Iceland, Norway and Switzerland...
...could foster economic discontent and instability. Both could also benefit from the EU’s human rights standards. Serbia’s record for treatment of the mentally ill is atrocious, and Kosovo has become an epicenter of sex slavery. EU member states are also party to the Schengen Agreement, which allows for the free movement of people. If Serbia and Kosovo enter into the agreement, Serbs could still journey to their holy sites in Kosovo, and Kosovars could still visit relatives in Serbia—moving more freely even than they can today.The most important lesson that...
...Schengen Agreement, allowing easier travel between many European states, is named after the Luxembourgish village of Schengen, which has a chart-topping population...
...That Burgundy Passport Remember the days when your passport got scrutinized by some suspicious official on even the most straightforward trip from Innsbruck to Bolzano? Some of us do. But since the signing of the Schengen Agreement in Luxembourg in 1985, the free movement of people has become more than an aspiration - and an attribute of modern Europe, remarkably, that has survived the struggle against terrorism of the last decade...