21.   The three other EU members, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, have yet to announce their intentions, but they are expected to abolish the controls, too.

22.   This agreement abolished border controls within the EU-countries earlier this year.

23.   France and Belgium clashed Monday over French reluctance to agree to full implementation of the Schengen agreement abolishing frontier controls between seven European Union states.

24.   He referred to the so-called Schengen area, comprising the majority of EU member states that have abolished border controls amongst themselves.

25.   An agreement on Friday cleared the way for the integration of five Nordic countries into the Schengen group of countries which abolished border controls in March.

26.   As signatories to the Schengen Convention, which last month abolished border controls between seven EU states, the four countries are committed to standardising their visa policy.

27.   Austria -- a signatory to the Schengen agreement on abolishing border controls among European Union countries -- has emerged red-faced from the incident.

28.   Both France and the Netherlands are part of the Schengen group of countries which have theoretically abolished controls on their common frontiers.

29.   The Schengen accords abolished border controls between Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

30.   The seven, known as the Schengen group, abolished frontier controls between each other at airports in March.