The government temporarily suspended the Schengen agreement, the European treaty that allows free cross-border travel, over concerns that violent protesters might travel to Barcelona.
But weak health systems and frequent cross-border travel have hampered efforts to contain the virus in a region which has never before experienced an outbreak.
But under pressure he soon agreed to free "cross-border" travel allowing Turkish Cypriots a glimpse of the much richer south for the first time since 1975.
On July 6, Pyongyang offered to open its half of Panmunjom for free cross-border travel on Aug. 15 and challenged the South to do the same.
They monitor the movement of coalition forces, tend weapons caches, facilitate cross-border travel of clerics, smuggle munitions into Iraq and recruit individuals as intelligence sources.
In the CCTV report last month, a uniformed Shanghai police officer, Lu Wei, said the couple had collected the personal household registrations of Chinese citizens, known as hukous, automobile and homeownership records and details of cross-border travel.
Driving south at Cerbère, the booths of a onetime frontier post, rendered obsolete by the Schengen agreement permitting unrestricted cross-border travel, had been shuttered but not dismantled, as if one day they might be recalled to life.
The report, published for a second successive year, analyses both visitor traffic and cross-border travel spend in 132 cities around the globe and is written by Dr Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, Global Economic Advisor for MasterCard Worldwide.
The central government had regarded the easing of cross-border travel restrictions in 2009 as a gift to Hong Kong, intended to boost its economy with an influx of high-spending visitors.
Yet this relationship has suffered recent blows, including the Buy American provisions in the jobs bill, a new fee for cross-border travel and the administration's stalling on approval for the Keystone oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas.But some aspects of Beyond the Border are controversial in Canada.
The number of Russian investors is growing with the implementation earlier this year of visa-free cross-border travel between Poland and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which is bounded by Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea, Mr. Plazinski said.
