Video of our two ideas
In order to celebrate the 20th Schengen anniversary, we decided to organise two events.
First we made up our minds to represent the Schengen area by doing a human chain with all the flags of the different countries of the agreement. We aimed at showing the link between all the countries.
Besides we wanted to show the freedom of movement allowed by the agreement. The best way to represent it was a balloon release because there are no boundaries in the air.
We hope you will enjoy this video.
Feedbacks to the events
This video was created to wish a happy 20th anniversary to Schengen. People from all over Schengen area wanted to be a part of it. They wanted to show their involvement as Schengen is a way to live connected and together. All of these little videos are a feedback to the events we created.
History
The Schengen Agreement was signed in 1985 in the small Luxemburg town named Schengen, before the creation of the Schengen area on March 26th, 1995. This immense area, sheltering more than 400 million inhabitants for about 4 million square kilometers, has been including 26 European States since 2013. It allows the free circulation of goods, people and capitals, and it abolishes identity controls at the border between member states.
At the beginning in 1985, only 5 States signed the treaty: Germany, Belgium, France, Luxemburg, The Netherlands.
Then other countries have entered the area :
Italy (1990), Greece (1992), Portugal (1992), Spain (1992), Austria (1995), Denmark (1996), Iceland (1996), Norway (1996), Finland (1996), Sweden (1996), Hungary (2004), Poland (2004), Latvia (2004), Czech Republic (2004), Slovakia (2004), Estonia (2004), Lithuania (2004), Slovenia (2004), Malta (2004), Liechtenstein (2008), Switzerland (2008).
This area is so attractive that other countries have been waiting for entering the Schengen area such as Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia and Romania. However, there are countries such as England and Ireland which are in the European Union but not in the Schengen area.
Take part in our project
Hello e
verybody,
We are building a project for our EYP (european youth parliament) class. We would like to make a video in which many countries of the Schengen area will be represented.
If you are willing to help us, please send us a video in which we can easily recognize your country or your city and in which you say IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE:
» I’ m from (country), happy birthday Schengen!!! »…
Please send it to 20schengen@gmail.com as fast as possible !!!
Thanks for taking part in our project !!!
20th Schengen Anniversary 