Brussels, 05/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - The lifting of all border controls in countries expecting to join the Schengen area is expected to gradually begin at the end of December 2007. EU ministers of the interior agreed on Tuesday, during the Justice and Home Affairs Council, that expansion of the Schengen area to new Member States, including Switzerland, would happen at the end of December 2007, with the lifting of controls at land and maritime borders. The lifting of borders in the air...