On 25 March, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland, will begin to implement the Schengen Agreement on eliminating border controls. The agreement, already adopted by ten European Union member states, provides for the dismantling of all identity checks on frontiers between signatories through the strengthening and standardising of controls at the external borders of ‘Schengenland’.
When the Schengen Agreement becomes operational in the Nordic countries, international travel between the fifteen signatories will in effect become domestic travel. Passengers, including third-country nationals, arriving from these countries are separated from other international arrivals at airports and seaports and enter without further controls.
