As from December 2007, the European Union plans to extend the abolition of checks at internal land and sea borders (and air borders by March 2008) to nine of the new Member States of the European Union (Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic).

People will be able to move freely, without checks, within an area expanded to 3 600 million km2 - the "Schengen area".

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