History
The Schengen Agreement was signed on 14 June 1985 by five of the then ten EU member states. It led to the creation of the Schengen Area on 26 March 1995. The Agreements and the rules adopted under them were entirely separate from the EU structures, until they were incorporated into the mainstream of European Union law by the Amsterdam Treaty in 1997.
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