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Romanians Still Need Passports To Visit Switzerland – Foreign Ministry

Romania’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said Switzerland’s accession to the Schengen Agreement has a strong impact on Romanian nationals willing to travel Switzerland, as they still need their tourist passports to visit this country.
Romanians Still Need Passports To Visit Switzerland – Foreign Ministry
15 dec. 2008, 15:08, English

The ministry highlighted that Romanian nationals cannot enter Switzerland using their national ID cards, as Switzerland is not member of the European Union, adding the valid agreement between the EU and Switzerland does not yet involve Romania.
 
Moreover, the ministry reminded that Switzerland was associated to the Schengen area and began implementing Schengen rules on December 12, 2008.
 
Switzerland thus joined the other 24 Schengen states, such as France, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Finland, Island, Norway, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary – by enforcing the association agreements to the Schengen space and the Convention in Dublin.
 
The Schengen Agreement translates into two international treaties concluded among certain European states in 1985 and 1990 and it deals with cross-border legal arrangements and the abolition of systematic border controls among the participating countries. By the Treaty of Amsterdam, the two agreements themselves and all administrative decisions that had been enacted on their basis were incorporated into the Community Acquis.
 
Not only does the Schengen Agreement remove border checks between participating countries, but the external controls which are exercised by the participating nations are also coordinated by the European Union’s Frontex agency, and subject to common rules.