raphy" are
addressed, including the award of Badme, the focus of the 1998-2000
war; Eritrea insists that the EEBC decision be implemented
immediately without modifications; in 2005 Eritrea began severely
restricting the operations of the UN Peacekeeping Mission to
Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) monitoring the 25km-wide Temporary
Security Zone in Eritrea since 2000; Sudan sustains over 110,000
Eritrean refugees and accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel
groups

Estonia
in 2005, Russia refuses to sign the 1996 technical border
agreement with Estonia when Estonia prepares a unilateral
declaration referencing Soviet occupation and territorial losses;
Russia demands better accommodation of Russian-speaking population
in Estonia; Estonian citizen groups continue to press for
realignment of the boundary based on the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty
that would bring the now divided ethnic Setu people and parts of the
Narva region within Estonia; as a member state that forms part of
the EU's external border, Estonia must implement the strict Schengen
border rules

Ethiopia
Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by the 2002
Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission's (EEBC) delimitation decision,
but mutual animosities, accusations, and armed posturing prevail,
preventing demarcation despite international intervention; Ethiopia
refuses to withdraw to the delimited boundary until technical errors
made by the EEBC that ignored "human geography" are addressed,
including the award of Badme, the focus of the 1998-2000 war;
Eritrea insists that the EEBC decision be implemented immediately
without modifications; Ethiopia has only an administrative line and
no international border with the Oromo region of southern Somalia
where it maintains alliances with local clans in opposition to the
unrecognized Somali Interim Government in Mogadishu; "Somaliland"
secessionists provide port facilities and trade ties to landlocked
Ethiopia; efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Sudan have
been delayed by civil war

Europa Island
claimed by Madagascar

European Union
as a political union, the EU has no border disputes
with neighboring countries, but Estonia and Latvia have no land
boundary agreements with Russia, Slovenia disputes its land and
maritime boundaries with Croatia, and Spain has territorial and
maritime disputes with Morocco; the EU has set up a Schengen ar