“The decision to abolish internal border controls reflected a collective desire to overcome the divisions of the Cold War and to foster unity and peace” – so says the European Union, in the 40th year since the Schengen area was born.
The plan for Europe without frontiers was first revealed in 1985 aboard a vessel symbolically floating in the Moselle river beside the Luxembourg village of Schengen – just where the Grand Duchy meets both France and Germany.
