+/-Nov 22 2007Schengen Free-Travel Area EnlargedBy: European Union interior ministers agreed during a meeting in Brussels on 8 November 2007 to enlarge the Schengen free-travel area to cover nine new member states, including Poland. The other new member states are Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia. The European Parliament approved the Ministers' decision on 15 November.