On 14 June 1985, in Schengen (Luxembourg), France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Benelux countries sign the Schengen Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders.

On 14 June 1985, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Junior Foreign Minister, welcomes the signing, the same day in Schengen, of the agreement on the gradual abolition of controls at the common borders between Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

On 14 June 1985, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs, signs the agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at the common borders between Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Luxembourg and the Netherlands, on board the cruise ship ‘Princesse Marie-Astrid', moored at Schengen, Luxembourg.

On 14 June 1985, on board the cruise ship ‘Princesse Marie-Astrid’, moored in Schengen (Luxembourg), Paul De Keersmaeker, Belgian State Secretary for European Affairs, Waldemar Schreckenberger, State Secretary to the German Chancellor, Catherine Lalumière, French State Secretary for European Affairs, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Willem Frederik van Eekelen, Netherlands State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, sign the Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders.

On 19 June 1990, on board the pleasure boat ‘Princesse Marie-Astrid’, moored in Schengen, Luxembourg, Paul De Keersmaeker, Belgian Junior Minister in the Foreign Ministry, Lutz Stavenhagen, Junior Minister to the German Federal Chancellor, Edith Cresson, French Minister for European Affairs, Georges Wohlfahrt, Luxembourg Junior Minister in the Foreign Ministry, Piet Dankert, Netherlands Junior Minister in the Foreign Ministry, and Aad Kosto, Netherlands Junior Minister in the Ministry of Justice, sign the Convention implementing the Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders signed in Schengen on 14 June 1985.

On 19 June 1990, in Schengen, Piet Dankert, Netherlands Junior Foreign Minister (left), Edith Cresson, French Minister for European Affairs (centre), and Georges Wohlfahrt, Luxembourg Junior Foreign Minister (right), sign the Convention implementing the agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at the common borders, signed in Schengen on 14 June 1985.

On 19 June 1990, at the ceremony held to mark the signing in Schengen of the Convention implementing the Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders, signed in Schengen on 14 June 1985, Piet Dankert, Netherlands State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the meeting, delivers an address in which he welcomes this Agreement, despite the difficulties it posed, on the abolition of controls at the internal borders between the five signatory countries.