Brussels, 05/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - The countries which joined the EU in 2004 will finally become members of the Schengen area without border controls before the end of the year, the Portuguese presidency of the EU has confirmed. Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and the Czech Republic have all fulfilled the criteria to join the “Schengen zone”, Portuguese Deputy Minister for the Interior Jose Magalhaes announced on 26 October, at a meeting of the...