Border Controls Vanish in Eastern Europe

[Angela Shelley]

For all of those "Travel Europe in 9 days" fans:


"Border Controls Vanish in Eastern Europe
By Charles Hawley in Berlin

The number of European countries doing away with border checks expanded by nine early on Friday morning. Most of those joined were behind the Iron Curtain just 20 years ago.

Europe just got bigger. At one minute after midnight local time on early Friday morning, border controls vanished for nine more European Union members, many of them former members of the Soviet Bloc. Fireworks, cheers, music and speeches throughout the morning welcomed the expansion, which means that travelers can move from the far corners of Estonia all the way to the Atlantic coast in Portugal without once encountering a border guard."

more: http://www.spiegel.de/international/