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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9776

6 November 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Switzerland due to join Schengen area on 12 December

Brussels, 05/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - On 12 December, Switzerland will probably join the Schengen Security Area and subsequently become its 25th member. At the end of a European Union experts meeting on Friday 31 October in Brussels, Switzerland decided that it no longer opposed joining the zone without borders. Luzius Mader, the vice director of the Federal Judicial Office, quoted by the Swiss press, declared: “From a technical point of view, we are ready”. The abandonment of...

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