Border barrier comes down to let East Europe in
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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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Under pressure from Europe, Tripoli has taken steps to clamp down on illegal migration.
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NATO peacekeepers were being  sent to newly independent Kosovo's border with Serbia on  Tuesday to defend frontier posts under attack by Serbs who  oppose its secession.
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Belarus tightens security on the border with Poland as scores of Chechens seek to head west, reports say.
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More than a decade and a half after the   collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new east-west divide has opened   up in the city which was for 40 years the front-line of the   Cold War.
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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 Estonia in the east to Portugal in the west without showing a passport.
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Politics: 4 January 2005, Tuesday. The Bulgarian Kalotina Checkpoint at the Serbian border is in a completely different condition than it used to be, said Tuesday the Sofia District Governor Olimpi Katev.
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HRADEK NAD NISOU, Czech Republic -- For more than 60 years, this remote stretch of bottomland was one of the most closely guarded sectors of Central Europe.
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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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European leaders celebrated Friday as the borders of nine countries along a Cold War frontier melted away, allowing a huge expansion to the EU's passport-free travel zone.
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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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Eastern Europeans who have no plans to settle in UK often change their minds within months of coming here, according to new research.
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Leaders of the European Union were striving last night to end the 30-year stalemate over Cyprus, clearing the last obstacle to Turkey&#39;s application for EU entry.
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Bulgaria and Romania are set to get the green light to join the EU on Tuesday, but under tough conditions.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 18 Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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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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PRAGUE, Sep 21 (IPS) - Negotiations for a new visa regime between the  United States and the European Union (EU) have driven another  wedge between the EU's older, Western members and the  Eastern European countries that recently joined.