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| | Schengen treaty |
 | | The Schengen treaty is an agreement originally signed in on June 14, 1985, by seven European Union countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Portugal and Spain). |
 | | The agreement was signed in Schengen, a small town in Luxembourg on the border with France and Germany. |
 | | Additional countries have since joined the treaty, and as of 2003, there are fifteen Schengen signatories, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. |
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