Non-EU countries Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein are also members of the Schengen area. The reliability of Icelandic police services to protect companies from crime is considered very high (GCR 2017 . Iceland says it welcomes Arctic cooperation with China but that multilateral system values need to be protected. Also third party services that might use cookies are employed. Visitor address: 7. juniplassen 1 / Victoria Terrasse 7, Responsible editor: Head of Communications Tuva Bogsnes, Cooperation on Schengen and justice and home affairs, Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Cooperation on foreign and security policy, Right of use and copyright for photos and video material. The Schengen Agreement established a free-travel area, in which checks on persons at the borders between member countries were discontinued, as well as closer cooperation on transnational crime. The southern African country is now preparing for the biggest corruption . July 2016. respect for democracy, rule of law and human rights; collective defence and the importance of solidarity, the transatlantic link and the indivisibility of security. In Iceland, the Police (Icelandic: Lgreglan, lit. Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the European Union have condemned in the strongest possible terms Russia's unprecedented military aggression against Ukraine. The co-operation between the Nordic countries is the world's oldest regional partnership.