By getting a Bulgarian passport, a Macedonian will be then able to travel freely around the Schengen countries. |
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It is clear that under the Schengen Agreement, these difficulties are growing out of all proportion. |
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Proposals and initiatives to build upon the Schengen acquis shall be subject to the relevant provisions of the Treaties. |
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It may also address the application of the Protocol in relation to Schengen building measures and amendments to existing measures. |
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Marine Le Pen is already demanding that France leave the euro, or that the Schengen free circulation area be suspended. |
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The Schengen Information System will only ever be a useless gadget as long as the dangerous Schengen agreements are in place. |
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I am also delighted to be able to welcome young students from the Schengen Lyzeum in Perl. |
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Iceland already benefits from being closely integrated with the EU through its membership of the European Economic Area and the Schengen area. |
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The government has steered clear of Schengen, stayed out of the Euro and sidestepped a referendum on Lisbon. |
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I mention that once Croatia joins the Schengen Area, the green line on the floor will mean nothing. |
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A variable speed Union has emerged as evinced by the monetary Union, Schengen, the CFSP and defence. |
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Citizens of the Schengen space can receive visas in any country of the Schengen space. |
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The main country of destination is the one that is responsible for issuing a Schengen visa. |
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Therefore, the problem of free movement of third-country nationals within the Schengen area will again rear its head and become even more acute. |
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It is also obvious that my party and I would like to revoke the Schengen Agreement. |
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Each year the Council would angrily strike off the Schengen heading at second reading. |
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I will repeat this again: without control on our external borders, Schengen will become history. |
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Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen area implicates a much faster and better treatment of people passing the checkpoint. |
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The borders of these countries that want to become part of the Schengen acquis are an easy target for criminals. |
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How many Afghan refugees are flocking to Sangatte in the hope of getting to England because they know they have no chance in the Schengen area? |
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The proposed solution based on the Schengen model would run the risk of becoming a closed shop. |
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The Schengen Agreement is a catastrophe for probity, but who has created Schengen? |
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Clearly, an enlarged Schengen area must not engender the risk of shutting out those countries which now adjoin the expanded Schengen borders. |
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The anniversary of the Schengen agreement for me personally has a double meaning. |
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For this reason there must be no overhasty enlargement of the Schengen area. |
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In accordance with the guidelines of the European Union, any Schengen visa application has to be accompanied by a payment of visa fees. |
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Spain only permits residence cards from Schengen countries, therefore cards from the UK, Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Cyprus are not allowed. |
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This system is older and was included in the 1991 accession treaty of Spain to the Schengen Area. |
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Citizens of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia can enter the Schengen Area without a visa. |
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Since Liechtenstein joined the Schengen Area in 2011, this border station is for customs formality only. |
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Under the Schengen system, a foreign passport is stamped with a date stamp which does not indicate any duration of stay. |
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This is very easy as there are no border controls due to the Schengen Agreement. |
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In 1995, the wall was removed completely as part of the new Schengen Area agreement. |
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It is also essential that facilitating controls at border checkpoints, and I can reassure Mr Evans on this, does not bring into question the integrity and security of the Schengen area. |
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According to the Schengen Agreement, there should not be any systematic checks and there should not be any obligation to present oneself to the Customs authorities or notify them that one is leaving national territory. |
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The establishment of the Visa Information System and second generation Schengen Information System will ensure that our authorities can share and access information and if necessary deny access to the Schengen area. |
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Bus and coach operators should not be penalised for passengers who do not possess the necessary travel document for transports inside the Schengen area. |
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The Council decided to update and to partly declassify the technical specifications of the Schengen Consultation Network with regard to examining visa applications. |
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Terrorism has no borders, and the Schengen area offers it the perfect cradle in which to recruit, indoctrinate and make the logistical preparations for attacks. |
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Mr Haarder called the solution balanced', but I regard it as being, above all, balanced in terms of allowing Russia to save face and to please our own Schengen purists. |
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Having done so much since the fall of the Berlin Wall to reunify and renew the continent, the EU must not allow Schengen arrangements to impose by default a new Iron Curtain. |
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The authorities in each country applying the Schengen Convention can check up on the certificate by contacting the central office in the country in which it was issued. |
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Enlargement of the Schengen area to include nine new states from 21 December 2007 is also the richly deserved outcome of the European Parliament's actions to stick to the original date. |
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Gibraltar is part of the United Kingdom but neither part of the Schengen Area nor the Common Travel Area. |
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As an EU member state and a party to the Schengen Agreement, Malta applies the EU's visa policy. |
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Ireland has been a member state of the European Union since 1973, but has chosen to remain outside the Schengen Area. |
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The main purpose of the establishment of the Schengen Agreement is the abolition of physical borders among European countries. |
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Thus, among the 28 EU countries, 19 have joined the Eurozone, 22 have joined Schengen, and 27 compose the European Military. |
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This treaty and the implementation convention of 1990 paved the way for the creation of the Schengen Area. |
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Helicopters are not permitted to go from outside Schengen or from a ship directly to San Marino or the Vatican City. |
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Both Norway and Iceland have signed and implemented the Schengen zone agreements. |
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Ireland and the United Kingdom also do not participate in the Schengen Agreement, which eliminates internal EU border checks. |
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These countries look to remove their temporary restrictions soon and reopen their borders to other Schengen states. |
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The Schengen Agreement was signed on 14 June 1985 by five of the ten EEC member states in the town of Schengen, Luxembourg. |
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While Bulgaria and Romania, which joined the EU in 2007, are also legally bound to join the Schengen Area, implementation has been delayed. |
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With Croatia's accession to the EU on 1 July 2013, it is also legally bound to eventually join the Schengen Area. |
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There are territories of member states that are exempted from the Schengen Agreement. |
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A Schengen visa, even one issued by France, is not valid for these territories. |
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France also has several territories which are neither part of the EU nor the Schengen Area. |
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As a result, the border between Svalbard and the rest of Norway is largely treated like any other external Schengen border. |
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They do not have border controls with the Schengen countries that surround them, but they are not officially part of Schengen. |
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Liechtenstein has no border check at the Balzers heliport, so helicopters must go inside Schengen only. |
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Schengen laws are administered as if it was part of EU, and Schengen visas are accepted. |
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The Schengen Borders Code requires participating states to remove all obstacles to free traffic flow at internal borders. |
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However, not all Schengen states or all of the territory of Schengen states are part of the customs union or VAT area. |
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Greece, Iceland and Malta do not share land borders with other Schengen member states. |
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Participating countries are required to apply strict checks on travellers entering and exiting the Schengen Area. |
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As a result, the length of time taken to perform checks differs between Schengen countries. |
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Soon citizens of Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina holding biometric passports will be able to travel to the Schengen area and stay for three months without applying for a visa. |
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In June 1985, the common market had already laid some foundations with the first Schengen Agreement between France, West Germany and the Benelux countries, ending border controls on goods. |
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There have been statements by the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and the Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, that both countries needed to end the demarcation between Schengen and non-Schengen. |
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The close association of Norway, Iceland Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis is likewise reflected in a joint declaration to the Agreement. |
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But he seems to have done so because the EU could use the threat of keeping Romania outside the passport-free Schengen group that Romanians desperately want to join. |
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But this has not stopped Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front, calling for the death penalty and stronger and harder security measures – the suspension of the Schengen zone and the revoking of double nationalities. |
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German police said they would carry out spot checks at the country's borders, which, because Germany is a member of the Schengen agreement, are normally openly accessible. |
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Croatia paid particular attention to the situation of minors, and had amended its legislation in order to make special arrangements for them, in accordance with the provisions of the Schengen agreements. |
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Belgium and the Netherlands, both members of the Schengen Area with Germany, experienced an increase in claims in the first year after Germany began restricting access. |
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If the US administration does not answer rapidly and positively, then by October 1st 2008, a visa should be required for every US citizen willing to enter the Schengen area. |
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France, another Schengen country, had no significant increase. |
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Croatia is currently introducing changes in police standards related to border security, with a view to meeting criteria and other conditions necessary for compatibility with the Schengen criteria. |
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In much of Europe, controls on persons were abolished by the 1985 Schengen Agreement and subsequent European Union legislation. |
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When the Schengen rules became applicable in 2007, the sign became obsolete. |
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The EU also operates the Schengen Information System which provides a common database for police and immigration authorities. |
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Norway has also acceded to the Schengen Agreement and several other intergovernmental agreements among the EU member states. |
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There is a need for full passport controls, since this is the border between the Schengen Area and the Common Travel Area. |
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It entitles the holder to enter the Schengen Area and remain in the issuing state for a period longer than 90 days but no more than one year. |
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Slovenia began erecting a border barrier along its border with Croatia in 2015 to control illegal migration into the Schengen Area. |
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It was signed on 14 June 1985, near the town of Schengen, Luxembourg, by five of the ten member states of the then European Economic Community. |
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Originally, the Schengen treaties and the rules adopted under them operated independently from the European Union. |
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Ratification by the former agreement signatory states is not required for altering or repealing some or all of the former Schengen acquis. |
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Legal acts setting out the conditions for entry into the Schengen Area are now made by majority vote in the EU's legislative bodies. |
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Because the Netherlands and Belgium are both in the Schengen Area, citizens of respective countries can travel through these enclaves. |
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The islands are outside the European Union customs territory and VAT area, though politically within the EU and Schengen Area. |
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As Denmark and Germany are both part of the Schengen Area, there are no controls at the border. |
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These countries also entered the Schengen Agreement which lifted border controls between member states. |
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The most notable exception to the currency union, or eurozone, was the United Kingdom, which also did not sign the Schengen Agreement. |
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Since Liechtenstein joined the Schengen Area in 2011, none of Austria's neighbouring countries performs border controls towards it anymore. |
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Since 1996, these countries have been part of the larger EU directive Schengen Agreement area, comprising 30 countries in Europe. |
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Border checkpoints have been removed within the Schengen zone and only a national ID card is required. |
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However, it participates in the Schengen Area and the European Single Market through bilateral treaties. |
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Residents of Spitsbergen do not need visas for Schengen, but are prohibited from reaching Svalbard from mainland Norway without such. |
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He emphasized that Kyrgyzstanis would have a chance to aviate to Europe through Kiev, as this airline runs flights to the Schengen countries. |
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On Tuesday, Kuneva will inspect the technical preparedness of Port Burgas and Burgas Airport to meet Schengen requirements. |
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It also includes microstates San Marino, Vatican and Monaco, which are bordered by Schengen area countries. |
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As soon as they join the EU, the new member countries will have to begin respecting Union regulations concerning judicial and domestic affairs, with the exception of a few areas of the Schengen Treaty. |
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The enlargement of the Schengen Area is a great achievement in support of the free movement of persons, one of the four fundamental freedoms of the European Union. |
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In January 2010, tensions with European countries increased when Libya stopped granting visas to nationals from the European Schengen area in retaliation to Switzerland's refusal to grant visas to selected Libyan nationals. |
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Other countries retort that Italy often skirts that burden by neglecting to fingerprint applicants and letting them go where they will which in practice means anywhere in the borderless Schengen area. |
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Particular attention should be given to the bodies in charge of the fight against fraud, corruption, money laundering, Schengen, co-ordination of police activities and antidrugs policy. |
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These provisions, which may be part of national law, public international law, EU law or EC law, including the elements of the Schengen acquis incorporated into the EU framework, lie outside the scope of this Regulation. |
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Spain has always positioned itself among the leading group of the most pro-European countries, when it came to adopting the euro, for example, or applying the Schengen agreement. |
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The agency will be responsible for the management of the second-generation Schengen information system, the visa information system and the Eurodac system for the comparison of fingerprints. |
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My question is: has the Commission looked into whether the Schengen Fund was used in this case as intended, and has it sought to ascertain the truth with regard to the water cannon purchase? |
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On 21 December 2007 the Czech Republic joined the Schengen Area. |
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Now that the Schengen Agreement is part of the acquis communautaire, it has, for EU members, lost the status of a treaty, which could only be amended according to its terms. |
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Schengen states must keep a central register of the permits issued and have to provide immediate access to the relevant data to other Schengen states. |
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A Schengen visa or a visa exemption does not entitle the traveller to enter the Schengen area, but rather allows the traveller to seek entry at the port. |
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The next rotating EU presidency, Lithuania, will propose the discussion of Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen area despite opposition from some Member States. |
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In addition, the EU citizens who have multiple nationalities will be obliged to use the passport issued by an EU Member State for entering the Schengen area. |
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Along the southern coast of the Schengen countries, coast guards make a substantial effort to prevent private boats from entering without permission. |
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In 1985, five member states of the then European Economic Community signed the Schengen Agreement on the gradual dropping of border controls between them. |
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A second series covering nine areas was signed in 2004 and has since been ratified, which includes the Schengen Treaty and the Dublin Convention besides others. |
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All travellers arriving from outside the Schengen Area using their own air plane or boat, have to go directly to an airport or seaport having a border control. |
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This allowed the migrants to travel freely in the Schengen Area. |
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It is the obligation of everyone travelling within the area to be able to show a fully valid form of personal identification approved by other Schengen states. |
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In 2006 it showed interest in joining the Schengen agreement for closer cooperation in information sharing and similar activities covered by the Schengen Information System. |
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San Marino and the Vatican City do not perform border checks for arrivals from outside Schengen, but these are not needed since neither of them have any airports or seaports. |
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This allows the UK to exchange information with countries that are a part of the Schengen agreement, often for the sake of liaising over law enforcement. |
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A Schengen visa must be multiple entry to allow returning to Norway. |
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Within the Schengen Area, passport controls have been abolished. |
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Only the Netherlands' European territory is part of the Schengen Area. |
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The Schengen zone already includes 15 nations, the 15 oldest European Union members minus Britain and Ireland, plus the nonbloc nations Norway and Iceland. |
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Although Norway chose through referendums in 1972 and 1994 not to join the EU, it has several treaties with the EU and is a part of Schengen treaty, as is Iceland. |
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The meeting also exchanged views on the Schengen visa issue with Diederik Paalman, acting head of unit in charge of visa policy in the European Commission. |
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While not signing the Schengen Treaty, Ireland has always looked more favourably on joining but has not done so to maintain the CTA and its open border with Northern Ireland. |
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In September 2015, Hungary threatened to veto Croatia's accession to the Schengen Area after it allowed migrants to transit the country into Hungary. |
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The other four microstates are not party to the Schengen Agreement, cannot issue Schengen visas and, with the exception of Monaco, are not part of the Schengen Area. |
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The Schengen regulation on crossing internal borders describes the checks for foreigners done by the police at suitable places inside each country. |
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When such risks arise out of foreseeable events, the state in question must notify the European Commission in advance and consult with other Schengen states. |
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Membership in the European Union was rejected in a 1994 referendum, with Norway instead joining the European Economic Area and later also the Schengen Area. |
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Family members of beneficiaries of international or subsidiary protection from a Schengen member state are issued residence permits as well, but their validity can be shorter. |
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The agreements considered include the fifth stage of economic integration or EMU, the Schengen agreement and the Common Security and Defence Policy. |
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And what's the current situation for EU citizens who return to the Schengen Area, for example after a stay in the UK, which is not part of the Schengen Agreement? |
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In 1990, the Agreement was supplemented by the Schengen Convention which proposed the complete abolition of systematic internal border controls and a common visa policy. |
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Concern has also been expressed about the potential influx of illegal migrants through Turkey to Bulgaria and Romania and then to present Schengen countries. |
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The arrival of migrants has put immense pressure on members of the EU's border-free Schengen area, prompting a desperate search for means of persuading Syrians to stay put. |
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Although Cyprus, which joined the EU in 2004, is legally bound to join the Schengen Area, implementation has been delayed because of the Cyprus dispute. |
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In 1990 the Agreement was supplemented by the Schengen Convention, which proposed the abolition of internal border controls and a common visa policy. |
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In 1990, the Agreement was supplemented by the Schengen Convention which proposed the abolition of internal border controls and a common visa policy. |
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