Brussels, 06/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 6 December, the EU interior ministers confirmed that the extension of the Schengen area will take place as planned on 21 December 2007 but the actual lifting of land and sea border controls will be introduced from 21 December 2007 onwards, and in international airports from 30 March 2008 onwards for nine of the ten countries which joined the EU in 2004 (Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech...