Europe celebrates expansion of borderless zone in the tiny town where it was founded

In a small cafe overlooking the river where a landmark EU agreement abolishing border checks was signed 22 years ago, locals mused on life in a Europe without frontiers.

"I find it great, free movement. Always pulling out the papers, stopping at the border, that's not a good thing," said Frenchman Georges Klein, a retired chef.

Klein knows all about it: Hailing from a French village just across the border from Schengen, he commuted to work to this hamlet in southern Luxembourg for 40 years before retiring and drawing his pension in France.

On Tuesday, envoys from 25 European member states descend on this village of several hundred …