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"The Schengen Agreement was concluded on 14 June 1985 between Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Schengen cooperation is now integrated into the European Union legal and institutional framework and comprises 25 Schengen Member States, along with three countries that are associated with the EEA: Norway, Iceland and Switzerland. Switzerland joined the Schengen area alone on 12 December 2008, with the abolition of border controls at land borders, followed by the abolition of border controls on intra-Schengen flights at airports on 29 March 2009. Since Liechtenstein did not accede, and there is a very active policy of free movement between these two countries, for the first time, it was necessary to put up controls at places where there had been no real border for 100 years. The 41 km that separate the two countries became an external Schengen border. This agreement removes that barrier through the accession of the Principality of Liechtenstein to Schengen. I welcome the new rules introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon, enabling Parliament to have an active role in adopting these agreements. For all of the above reasons, I voted in favour of this report."@en1
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