Border barrier comes down to let East Europe in
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PETRZALKA, Slovakia  - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white frontier barrier on Thursday in symbolic preparation for nine new countries joining the EU's border-free zone at midnight.
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Belarussian guards on the border with Poland have stepped up security because large numbers of Chechens have been trying to go west, reports say.
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As Europe removes internal barriers to travel, Islamic militants find it easier to move around undetected.
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Â· East Europeans 'pose integration challenge'Â· Councils urged to rethink strategies on diversity
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Fifteen years after the Berlin Wall fell, a Berlin museum plans to rebuild a section of the concrete barrier close to the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing.
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Want to become a European? Tough The Brussels government is working on plans for a range of aggressive new border-control measures designed to prevent mass migration into Europe - particularly from points south and east.â¦
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One unfortunate outcome of Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election is that it has brought into stark relief an east-west divide within that large country.
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Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a private museum is rebuilding a 200-meter section close to Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War border crossing, to satisfy tourists who flock to the site.
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Hundreds of miles of new fences along the U.S.-Mexico border would be funded under a bill passed on Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives as part of an election-year clamp-down on illegal immigration.
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In a historic move that could extend Europe&#39;s borders to the edge of the volatile Middle East, the European Union recommended Wednesday setting mostly Muslim Turkey
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The Hungarian National Boundary Control Supporting System (HTTR) was presented at the National Headquarters of Border Guard (NHBG) accompanied by a press conference, at which the national deputy commander of ...
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The urgent need to reinforce border controls to prevent thousands of illegal immigrants from entering the European Union will be at the top of the agenda when EU justice and interior ministers meet in Brussels on Tuesday. The ministers are expected to agree on measures to strengthen border controls in a bid to reduce the number of illegal entries to the bloc each year, but the question of funding will be paramount to any decisions taken.
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Berlin and Warsaw have moved closer to ending a row over Germany's plans to mark the expulsion of millions of Germans from eastern Europe after World War Two, a subject that has strained relations for years.
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Nine mainly ex-East bloc countries on Friday tore down their borders to join a European zone allowing 400 million people to travel from the Arctic Circle in Norway to Portugal without showing a passport.
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ORADEA, Romania Like it or not, Frenc Alafi could become a European Union passport holder sooner than he had expected. The 43-year-old tailor from this city situated just inside Romania&#39;s Hungarian border
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The EU executive sets tough terms for Eastern European countries hoping to join in the coming years.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings &#151; along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings &#151; have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.