Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:50:24 +0200https://english.radio.cz/hungarians-first-cut-iron-curtain-now-schengen-brings-final-act-8601778© 2026 Radio Prague International Almost two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, another important barrier separating members of the former Eastern block from western Europe is to be lifted. As of December 21st, nine countries that joined the European Union in 2004, including the member states of the Visegrád Group, will be part of the Schengen agreement, a zone without internal border control. Hungary was the first country to breach the old iron curtain - allowing citizens of the former East Germany to travel to Austria from where they could easily continue on to the West. So having pioneered the bringing down of borders - how do Hungarians feel about the final sweeping away of those annoying border checks? encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/schengen2008.jpg?timestamp=1591402099 https://english.radio.cz/hungarians-first-cut-iron-curtain-now-schengen-brings-final-act-8601778 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9