The new countries are the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Only Malta does not belong to the group of the former communistic countries. To this date ground checks are stopped. On the airports they are going to end during March 2008.

Schengen is not only political matter, but mainly technical. The liquidation of physical borders does not mean anything else, than personal information interconnection into one universal European information system, called SIS II. So the physical borders give no sense in fact and anyone can be checked anywhere. So in fact the fall of the physical borders means more strict surveillance. Let's hope, that the visions about a chip, that everyone has to carry in own body, are not going to fulfill. However, the rumours about the possibility of the introduction of the satellite surveillance system of all cars only show, how mighty the SIS II is going to be in fact. Well, we will maybe reminiscence the prudent border policeman in the future.