EU leaders celebrate extension of free borders

European leaders celebrate the end of border controls along a line stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic today as many of the European Union’s newest members join the EU’s passport-free zone.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, his Czech counterpart, Mirek Topolanek, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will mark the event in Zittau, on Germany’s eastern fringe, where the country meets Poland and the Czech Republic.