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Finnish regions already co-operate with their Russian counterparts (Photo: European Commission)

EU border regions join in bid to prevent new iron curtain

Forty regions on the EU's eastern border are kicking off a network, aimed at avoiding a new "iron curtain" emerging after the enlargement of the bloc's Schengen borderless zone to new member states.

The Network of Eastern External Border Regions (NEEBOR) is to be officially launched in Brussels on Thursday (8 December), linking together regions of the EU's 5,500 km long eastern border.

The network will bring together regions from Finland, the Baltic states, Poland, Hungary, Slova...

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Finnish regions already co-operate with their Russian counterparts (Photo: European Commission)

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