Brussels, 11/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - Austrian Minister of the Interior Ernst Strasser pointed out in Vienna that Austria intends to maintain controls on common borders with the future new EU Member States (Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic) after their accession on 1 May 2004, or even until the end of this decade.
During enlargement negotiations, the EU and the ten candidate countries agreed that accession by the new countries of the Schengen Area would take place in two stages....