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The
Italian government has suspended the Schengen Treaty for several
weeks, June 28 to July 15, 2009, in order to restore border control
and increase security for the upcoming G8 Summit, which will be held
July 8-10 in L'Aquila.
According to the G8 website:
“European citizens in the Schengen area, who have been able to move
around freely in those countries party to the Treaty since the early
nineties, will once again be subject to border controls before being
allowed to enter Italy. A similar measure was adopted back in 2001
when the G8 summit was held in Genoa. Italian citizens, too, will be
required to take their passport or some other form of ID with
passport status with them when travelling abroad, in order to comply
with the regulations in force in their country of destination.
The Schengen agreement expressly allows any individual member
country in the area (whose members are Austria, Belgium, the Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The
Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and
three non-EU countries: Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) to suspend
the free circulation of citizens when special events are due to be
held. The suspension must comply with a set of very specific rules,
and in every instance it can be enforced for a limited period of
time only.”
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