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Lithuania joins the Schengen Area

On December 6, 2007, the European Union (EU) Council of Justice and Internal Affairs Ministers adopted a resolution approving the decision of nine new states — Lithuania, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Malta, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia — to join the Schengen area. These nine states, joined by Switzerland, will remove control from internal land borders beginning December 21, 2007. Control at air borders will be removed beginning March 30, 2008, taking into account new timetables of flights.