A bus is brought into position during celebrations at the German-Polish border checkpoint of Ahlbeck-Swinemuende, northeast of Berlin, December 21, 2007. Fireworks, cheers and music greeted the expansion of the EU's passport-free zone to nine mostly Eastern European states on Friday. From a minute after midnight it was extended to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Malta, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. 
A Polish border guard (R) stands with a German federal police officer at a vehicle checkpoint at the border bridge between Poland and Germany in Frankfurt on Oder, December 20, 2007. 
A man walks his dog alongside the river Neisse next to the Polish, Czech and German borders, near the Czech town of Hradek Nad Nisou, December 20, 2007.
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German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (R) and his Polish counterpart Grzegorz Schetyna cut a symbolic border ribbon at the German-Polish border near the German city of Frankfurt on Oder, December 20, 2007. 
Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany (front) greets a driver next to Austria's Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer (R) at the Austrian-Hungarian border at Nickelsdorf, December 20, 2007. 
Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany (front) greets a driver next to Austria's Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer (R) at the Austrian-Hungarian border at Nickelsdorf, December 20, 2007. 
Spectators watch fireworks during celebrations at the German-Polish border checkpoint of Ahlbeck-Swinemuende, northeast of Berlin, December 21, 2007.
One of the last passport checks is carried out by a Slovakian border guard minutes before the checkpoint's closure at midnight on the border between Slovakia and Austria, December 20, 2007. 
A man takes pictures of fireworks during a midnight ceremony on the border between Slovakia and Austria, December 21, 2007. 
A man takes pictures of fireworks during a midnight ceremony on the border between Slovakia and Austria, December 21, 2007. 
Spectators watch fireworks during celebrations at the German-Polish border checkpoint of Ahlbeck-Swinemuende, northeast of Berlin, December 21, 2007. 
A man smiles from behind a window of a bus as he arrives for celebrations at the German-Polish border checkpoint of Ahlbeck-Swinemuende, northeast of Berlin, December 21, 2007. 
Latvian border guard Ilmars Ivanovs checks a truck at the Latvian-Lithuanian border checkpoint in the final minutes before the Schengen treaty comes into force in Grenstale, December 20, 2007. 
People attend celebrations at the German-Polish border checkpoint Ahlbeck-Swinemuende, northeast of Berlin, December 21, 2007. 
The first cars from Latvia and Lithuania cross the border when the Schengen treaty comes into force in Grenstale, December 21, 2007. 
A girl dressed as an angel stands on the border bridge between Poland and Germany in Frankfurt on Oder, December 21. 
Fireworks illuminate the border bridge between Poland and Germany in Frankfurt on Oder, December 21, 2007. 
A man holds a German and Polish flags at the border bridge between Poland and Germany in Frankfurt on Oder, December 21, 2007.
Iron Curtain finally lifted
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