European leaders celebrate fallen borders where Iron Curtain once stood
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EU, Slovenian and Hungarian dignitaries took part in a last round of celebrations Saturday to welcome nine mainly eastern European countries into the passport-free Schengen zone.
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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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"What is Schengen? It is not criminality, it is not uncertainty, it is not fear, it is a big space of security and stability"  By Martin DokoupilPETRZALKA, 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.Austria's Alfred Gusenbauer and Slovakia's Robert Fico stood either side of the pole on their common frontier working a double-handled saw, heralding what many see as a final lifting of the Iron Curtain between the former Soviet bloc and the West. Read more
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Riots in Hungary attract comment from across the continent, and papers also scrutinise the political legacy of French leader Jacques Chirac.
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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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As Germany marked the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the country&#39;s politicians took stock of the state of the nation -- and concluded that East-West discrepancies are still cleaving the country.
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Europe prepared to scrap internal border controls on Thursday and incorporate a slew of states formerly on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain in a frontier-free zone encompassing 400 million people in 24 countries.
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Germany celebrated its Unification Day Sunday, with President Horst Koehler urging countrymen to make joint efforts in overcoming the east-west divide still existing in the country.
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Politics: 9 September 2004, Thursday. Celebrations across the country marked the 60th anniversary since the communist take-over in Bulgaria as Parliament condemned it in a declaration, backed by all but the ...
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Germany marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today, weighed down by high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense that in peopleâs hearts the nation has not yet fully reunited.
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Frontiers in east Europe once  guarded by machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell  away on Friday as nine mostly former communist states joined  the EU's border-free zone amid fireworks, cheers and music.
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BAD AROLSEN, Germany- World War II is near its end. The Nazi empire is crumbling from its edges inward as Soviet and Allied forces advance.Comment
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Europe was briefly united in silence yesterday. Tens of millions of people interrupted their busy daily lives, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterannean, to reflect for three minutes on the tens of thousands ...
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Eighteen years after the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, Germans are battling to preserve the last remnants of a barrier that still haunts the country.
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Europe&#39;s leaders signed the EU&#39;s first constitution yesterday, setting aside fears that the document will be rejected by voters and celebrating a new chapter of integration with a lavish ceremony.
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The ending of border checks between the former communist states of eastern Europe and Western neighbours on Friday carries a potent symbolism for those who for long lived behind the Iron Curtain and were then made to feel like "second class citizens" in a united Europe.
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A week after thousands of European holidaymakers went missing in Asian killer waves, hope was fading that they will ever be found but European countries were giving generously to alleviate what British Prime Minister Tony Blair called a "global catastrophe".