The Schengen Area Explained
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- International borders are usually hard lines that one needs a passport to cross, but for 26 of the nations of Europe, no border checks are required whatsoever. This is an area called the Schengen Area, so how exactly does it work?
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UK: Islands work different
Iceland: yeah sure
Well Iceland is in the Nordic passport union already, so they had practice in sharing citizens before Schengen.
Copenhagen:Yep
Iceland is not even in the EU
@@gangii2325 but it is part of the schengen area
Malta and Cyprus are islands as well.
When Switzerland forgets they're neutral.
Happens from time to time
it's not about neutrality
neutrality doesn't mean a country is fortress on an island lost far from any other land...
@@kolerick ah really captain obvious ;)
why don't people understand that this is not serious?
The EU isn’t a military alliance it’s an economic union. That why it’s sometimes EEU.
Just to clarify, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and within a couple of months, Croatia have all completed all of the technical requirements to enter the Schengen area. Them not being in the area is currently solely a political, rather than technical decision.
Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia will probably join soon. Cyprus on the other hand..., they will probably need to sort out the situation on their island first.
Well Schengen or not...these countries (Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus) are part of the European Union so they pretty much have the privilege to travel within the other EU states with no restrictions.
We don't want it
@@donttouchtherolex7158 lol why
@@ringgame We lose our identity.Our currency does it's job fairly well.The EU policies caused nothing but harm to us,such as killing the animals of villagers because they presumed that they had some illness,and after they found out that the animals weren't sick at all,they did not apologize or aid us. I spit on the EU's(The 4th reich) grave. EU causes the doom of Europe.
I didn't appreciate how nice EU's open borders are until I had to deal apply for a student visa in Chile. And even that was relatively easy compared to other borders. As usual, great video KhAnubis!
Wherever I go you're there
I still remember a time before Schengen. Crossing a border, even into our closest friend France from Belgium, was sometimes hours of queuing.
EU borders should be wide open to each other, but strictly controlled to who comes in from outside the EU. The fact that untold masses of possibly dangerous people from Africa and the Middle East are just waltzing into Europe is unacceptable.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath the outer EU borders weren't given enough attention partly because Eurosceptics at the time (the very same ones who are now railing against the eu for letter these "hordes in - they're not hordes, that's /Pol/ levels of misinformation) were against the creation of a proper pan European border force.
@@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 still nothing compared to border checks in communism era here :-) I heard on return way they were searching even your socks if you don't have any dollars or any other currency :-D
I've just returned from an EU trip. The first time I crossed the German-Dutch borders blew my mind honestly. The absence of that humiliation and waiting in line for hours straight just to get your passport stamped... after having to apply for a visa worrying whether it will be accepted or not... all the papers one has to provide...
I know my country is by far not the best country out there (Ukraine), but hey... at least we are, for now, one of the green ones...😅 Being able to just purchase the ticket without worries does feel nice.
I've visited Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Austria. The absence of borders makes you wanna cry at how far ahead some people are into the future... or how others are still stuck back in the past.
🇪🇺 Lang lebe Europa...
Also, although I loved all people, but special shout out to the Dutch 🇳🇱. I loved you, people. Friendliest folk I ever came across... :)
Дякую!
Hope you'll feel always welcomed here :) Also, be proud of your Ukrainian roots, it's a beautiful country!
I truly hope that the EU can help Ukraine to get the wealth they deserve 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 😁
Ruslan Abu Sneineh Dankjewel je bent altijd welkom in Nederland
Atleast Ukraines women are gorgeous
Shout out back to you!! Groeten uit Nederland😁
I hope you get to join the EU some day ! Love to Ukraine !
I have a Brazilian friend who also had Spanish and Romanian citizenship. When I showed him how many stamps I had in my passports, he got jealous because he had none, despite having travelled a lot more than me.
I think you can still go into an immigration office and simply ask for one.
asdsdjf asdjxajiosdqw no you can’t. If you are EU citizen the Immigration Office within the entire EU (UK and Ireland included) is forbidden to stamp your passport. As due to free movement of people you are not subject to immigration.
Moreover if you travel within Schengen you won’t meet any officer that checks your passport so literally there won’t be any person who can do that.
@Vand 92 Three of his grandparents were Romanians who fled to Spain during WW2. Both his parents were born in Spain and they moved to Brazil, where he was born. I was rather surprised too.
@@sohopedeco meanwhile in romania you still need to wait at the border
@Vand 92 more like Brazil got invaded 100 years ago 😂
3:12 Wrong, Switzerland and th EU have bilateral agreements allowing Swiss and EU citizens to live in both places
I thought that it's only the living agreements was with some EU (german speaking) countries, not the EU.
@@mikehunt4348 No it's EU-Switzerland, you can check it out on the European Commission website. Switzerland is like an EU member in terms of the fundamental EU freedoms but without any political rights inside the union.
@@swisschocolateish I vaguely renember it being a 5 head point agreement, that contains of hunders of sub agreements.
IN essence, a lot of the stuff is declared to be connected, and Swiss can not just quit a part of it.
But in several way Swiss is clearly NOT a full EU member.
It's in the trade union of course, there landlocked by EU, It would be idiotic to produce stuff not fitted for the EU market.
but there not bound by tax restrictions and such. neither by the Basel bank norms. There in no way involved it the EU budget, ...
and you get custum checks a lot more often at the swiss border, between most EU countries it's rare to have any customs check, except for police action mainly to catch drug transports.
@@JeroenJA for sure Switzerland is not an EU member, but they enjoy a lot of benefits equivalent to being one, especially for the freedom of movement where Switzerland is part of the Schengen area. But you are right, it's not in the single EU market and thus there are still some custons checks even with EU import/export. There is also no freedom of services in contrary to the single market.
@@swisschocolateish Switzerland is not in the customs union and has some excemptions with the financial market.
The European experiment is a complex affair to say the least!
🇪🇺 = European Union (28 members, 2019-07)
🇮🇸🇱🇮🇳🇴🇨🇭 = European Free Trade Association
🇪🇺🇮🇸🇱🇮🇳🇴 = European Economic Area
💶 = Eurozone (¹⁹/₂₈ 🇪🇺; 🇦🇩🇲🇨🇸🇲🇻🇦 have agreements & 🇽🇰🇲🇪 w/no agreement)
🌍 = Schengen Area (²²/₂₈ 🇪🇺, EFTA, 🇲🇨🇸🇲🇻🇦 de facto)
Right now it is like this:
🇪🇺 = European Union (27 members, 2023-01)
💶 = Eurozone (²⁰/²⁷ 🇪🇺,...)
🌍 = Schengen Area (²³/²⁷ 🇪🇺,...+🇷🇴🇧🇬 will join sooner or later.)
@@anisbbk45 Croatia joins the euro and Schengen on Sunday, 1 January 2023, but border controls will still be in force at airports until 26 March. The 2024 date for Bulgaria to join the euro is far from sure though. I think that Bulgaria and Romania will join Schengen soonish, but Cyprus won't join soon at all - the political situation would have to be sorted out first
@@grassytramtracks
Ooooh I didn't know that Croatia will join schengen too I thought it was just eurozone Thnx4 telling me.
I remember going from the UK to Italy without being stopped at the border ever. The only time we did get checked was when we were entering the UK again
Belguim here,
i remeber being checked at uhm, Slovakia 20 y ago before it became part of EU,
Swiss border, more of a custum check I though,
some 15 y ago, with school bus group, UK , identity card check, and a weird check if surely were bringing in any meat or cheese on or sandwiches.
later by eurostart I had the mini version of an airplain check in : identity card and luggage on band to be scanned even, Uk customs there in Brussels before being able to go near the eurostar
Euhm, Turkey , the plain check, in Turkey itself it was just pay 10-15 euro for a small piece of paper they called a 'visa' ,
otherwise, never between main country EU ,
to spain, Italia, France, Germany, Austria, ... never renember any time I had to identify meself at the border.
PS , the biggest problem of the UK here, is the lack of a need for passport in the UK, with makes it easy to build up a life without any paper there. That's almost the only reason all those refugees are so determined to try to get into the UK in the first place.. and a Brexit will change NOTHING to that fact. I would only make deals with mainland to help control the flow on the other side of the channel more challenging. Brexit will only halt legal immigration from EU countries, it want do a thing against illegal, except perhaps helping it, because of lot of changed in trade flows would create several temparary options to have a better shot at entering the UK unseen..
I live in Croatia and have crossed into Slovenia a dozen or so times, never been asked more than a casual "Where ya going?" by the border police while they were checking my ID. Same for Hungary.
The worst part of travelling within EU countries for me was being let through into Spain in 3 seconds with my British passport then having to sit and wait while my Taiwanese gf had to queue in line for an hour.
Now you can join her in the queue
@@alphabetaomega265 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao 🤣
“Roughly 1.7 million people cross an international border every day in the EU.
**Covid-19 screams**
Your piece on Europeans not being able to live and work in Switzerland because it isn't in the EEA is wrong. While not formally in the EEA, Switzerland's 120 or so bilateral agreements with the EU make it a de facto member of the single market, meaning it partakes in EU freedoms of movement. So yes, a German does have the right to live and work in Switzerland.
Yes but not in the single market
@@romainsavioz5466 EEA is euphemism for single market, just like internal market.
@@romainsavioz5466 yes it is, under the bilateral agreements, Switzerland participates in the SM
@@grassytramtracks 🤦🏻♂️
@@grassytramtracks we don't have the euro
We have import taxes from the eu so not really a single market
I love this about Europe I live in the Netherlands and I have travelled to Germany, France, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and others. Some countries are expensive but some like Poland are cheap so it's just a matter of taking the car booking a hotel and going out there
I'm from romania and i still have to go through borders because we are not allowed into the schengen zone since our port constanta would steal about 30%-40% of Rotterdam's traffic .-.
You're really lucky my guy..
After I read all of the comments on how hard it is to actually cross a border I am shocked.
Me (A German) has never actually crossed a "real" border ecept for once to Great Britain, but cmon, it is only showing them your ID so I don't Count it
Sadly we can't relate🇲🇰,waiting multiple hours in borders in not uncommon :(
@@markojovanovski3372 hopefully North Macedonia joins the EU, though I wouldn't hold my breath
I think the most serious border I've ever crossed was to go to Morocco, and to enter France and Italy on my British passport this summer gone (I'm getting a French one soon, so that'll go away as an issue)
@@grassytramtracks true for Morocco. You need a vaccination passport on top of everything else
The comparison with Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog (Netherlands and Belgium) doesn't really fit here because the BeNeLux countries had their own open-border agreements even before the Schengen Area
the origin of EU is : Benelux, European union of coal and steel = +France and Germany, who count as the wheels on with the EU rolles,
to the EU 12 i the 90ties en the 20ish today.
But a lot of the progresses in the EU , were historically first tested in the Benelux, before being exported the the entire EU.
The Benelux was thus kind of a test lab.
Luxembourg already had the Belgian Frank as perfectly equal to their coin: the Luxembourg franc, decenia before the Euro was developed.
And tax-wise, and brand registration Benelux still is a lab to do more in the supranational Benelux today, for perhaps later partial enrollment to the entire EU if all countries can come to agree.
Historically it's actually weirder that we even have hard borders. Outside of fortified areas and ports (for water travel only) you basically couldn't stop the movement.
You are so underrated and need more views.
I was a sub since 200 subs man love how you have developed :)
If shengen falls the Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog towns are stille fine because we still have the BeNeLux union.
I just realized that BeNeLux stands for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg...
@@Pietro-Smusi Everyday you learn something new.
By the way, the Baarle situation also wasn't a problem before Schengen, because the Netherlands and Belgium had open borders to each other before that.
I've heard that there were still some problems. E.g. the police of one country had no authority in the other. Supposedly there was a corrupt bank that was laundering money etc. and the police found it difficult to do anything about it because the entrance to the bank was in one country and e.g. the vault in another and thus a raid from either country's police would end up overstepping their authority (until they managed to arrange a joint raid). I'm not 100% if this is true but I've often seen this story mentioned.
I traveld so much in europe, lived a year in GB and Not even have a passport. Schengen is the greatest Thing in the EU!
You can't get into the UK and Ireland without a passport tho? They aren't in the Schengen Area
@@isaac_aren i traveld into both countrys with my german ID card. Very easy. I dont even have a passport
@@RufusE Odd. Even when travelling between the UK and Ireland, I still need to show a passport, especially with some of the new electronic passport checking where you have to go through them
@@isaac_aren And there we see how confusing the topic is. If I am not mistaken the Schengen Area just refers to border controls. The EU refers to free movement without passport
@@isaac_aren yes because both are Not member of the schengen Arena. But, for example, when i'm travel from germany to france i dont need to show my passport or ID card. I can just cross the borders and nobady cares
"Wait, I was neutral..."
-Switzerland
Don't be so negative.
Still neutral
@Manuel Camelo nope still neutral
I love the Comment section under those videos. People from different countrys tell their storys and are so friendly to each other. Keep going Europeans!
@Zardoh ok bro
And we in the Balkans are crying reading thiese lol 🇲🇰
0:59 thanks for being in the video :D
LOve your videos man. Keep up the good work :)
Let the records show this man was first
I like your content as well as your clear explanation. I think you can attract more viewrs and have more subscribers by enhancing the graphic quality of your videos such as using high resolution maps so that when you zoom in, it won't be pixelized. you can get plenty of these high quality maps freevectormaps. Also, Google is now offering a free service to use their maps and you can animate it how ever you want.
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Good luck!
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CreeperMC 1234 agree
2:46.
Yes, there is a railway line in the Vatican City.
EDIT: Corrected the time.
It’s actually 2:46 .
@@sun2541.
Noted.
I know the border crossing at 0:21 quite well. The building on the left is the old Border control station, it has since been demolished. The nice building behind the gas station used to be a rather nice restaurant which sadly closed some years ago and the house has been replaced by a large rest stop after sitting empty for some time.
Literally the best thing in Europe
I really don't get why people don't like this agreement. Most people using it are just citizens of the EU traveling around.
@@da_schnitzel fear of immigration
@@stefanozucchelli5410 Many people don't understand the difference between moving between different coutries/ free movement of goods and services and actually immigrating to a country
@The Nova renaissance Fuck yeah
@The Nova renaissance Without the Shengen area you couldn't experience those things you mentioned
I come from Malaysia. I would like to ask how many days of stay should i write in arrival card of Schengen Visa upon arrival since i want to stay 48 days in Schengen including Switzerland and 8 days in United Kingdom. I still can not make sure the exact how many days needed in Schengen and so it is approximately 50 days. The custom will stamp total 90 days of Schengen Visa over 6 months for my entry regardless of my written days? or i no need to write days at all?
Once exit from EUROSTAR GARE DU NORD Paris and entry into United Kingdom, is it there are another United Kingdom EU non schengen visa issued upon arrival yup? and is it i fill in arrival card of EU non schengen visa upon arrival and fill in departure card leaving United Kingdom after 8 days accordingly?
Thank.
A nice video for a good night. See y'all tomorrow!
Hello ! I have a question if im from Perú for example am I alowed to visit greenland or Faroe Island with my schegen visa? Or do i habe to get through a different process in order to visit?
Not just in Europe, also in some Central American nations: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua all share one border, and anyone who enters one nation via land or internal water way can go from one country to another. The African Union plans on rolling out a similar plan.
Yep, the Central American 4 Border Control Agreement. As for Africa, yeah, but it already has some free movement between some members of regional economic organizations, such as the East African Community and I think some ECOWAS members. ASEAN is also working on this for its members. However, maybe the next best free travel area for members that isn't Schengen, would be in South America which is why Venezuelan migrants were able to get to many of their neighbors so easily, since they legally have the ability to stay without proof of economic burden for 2 years thanks to a treaty that all most South-American countries are party to.
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/free-movement-south-america-emergence-alternative-model
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions And enter without passport, which is hard to get in Venezuela these days apparently
3:29 Wondered if this has created a loophole that some may have tried to exploit, by trying to smuggle goods by crossing the border in vehicles that appear to be carrying only passengers, no goods (so that they might be less likely to be stopped by customs)
Another great video KhAnubis and could you make other *Freedom of Movement Area* videos like the CTA between UK and Ireland or the agreement between Australia and New Zealand and I also heard Russia had some agreements like this with other post-Soviet countries.
Great work! Also, you used footage of my town's subway, literally the line I use EVERYDAY xD
Was it so difficult to add a timestamp?
0:48 ALBANIA is in schengen area too 🇦🇱🖐😉
I must be colour blind or something, but I don’t see Albania marked in red
@@taxiwarrior He means: all Albanians are immigrated to Schengen area, and now they are in Schengen too!
We enjoy the possibility to travel to Schengen countries for up to 90 days every six months, but we are not part of Schengen. If we were than there wouldn’t be any borders with Greece.
#BebeRexha *would like to know your location*
I loved the PBS reference in the sponsors
Thank you for this video! I am a security officer working at Helsinki Airport in Finland and constantly have to answer questions like ”why do I need to show my passport I am a Finnish/Swedish/whatever citizen?!” or why there’s a customs point or a security control even though you just had one in China 🙄 I love it but the whole Schengen/EU thing can get quite frustrating and complicated at times...
You mean you get those questions from people actually flying in from outside of the Schengen area?
Bartłomiej Wawro every day 😂
The beginning sounds weird for me, I live in EU almost all of my life, in the town that is almost on the border of two countries and you are wondering about something such obvious for me xd
Im here from Alliterative. Subscribed.
[2:00] Why do they have those signs in Korean? Does anyone know which country is that airport from and possibly how many Korean visitors they get yearly? I mean I think is has Czech and something in Cyrillic (possibly Russian since that's the most populous user of that alphabet).
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan
Ah, alright. Interesting, it might be just that particular airport?
If you walk through the Schengen area with military equipment does that count as invasion?
I like how at 2:26 he says "Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus" and views each country respectively, except Cyprus. He puts Greece on the screen. lol close enough, I guess
Good
The name “Schengen” comes from the small winemaking town and commune of Schengen in far southeastern Luxembourg, where France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands signed the Schengen Agreement.
I wonder if i can cross ( bulgaria , romania ) by Schengen visa , i m from iraq and i want to cross from Turkey to germany?
I love the sole fact that you were not afraid to pronounce 'Szczecin' in 4.45
Wrocław: Hold my pivo
Can someone explain what is it like when flying from one Schengen country to another. Do you get checks at the airport? How does Schengen work for airports and at airport border checkpoints? Is there borders and border checkpoints at the airports? I've flown LHR-AMS, CDG-LHR while UK was still part of EU, and also many times between SOF and LHR, LGW, LTN, STN while UK was part of EU but never flown between two Schengen countries. I've only crossed the internal countries' borders in Schengen by land between Slovenia and Italy.
You only have to do a security check since flights between Schengen countries are treated as domestic flights.
I love Schengen because the next City from me has a Bus that goes to Denmark every 20 minutes and you just have to buy a ticket nothing more the same is with trains and i love it
I drive to Germany once in a while to get cheaper beer and wine..
Its so funny that this border crossing thing is so unusual for foreigners.
While Switzerland is not part of the EU, I am pretty sure eu citizens can live in Switzerland and vice versa, it’s just a little bit more complicated.
Edit: I just checked and EU citizens can live and work in Switzerland the same as any other EU country.
Samo for Liechtenstein but with a quota on the number of people.
"Immigration and customs are two different things". Shows passport control (immigration) and security (something very different, not related to either).
The video is super nice but there is a thing that is not true, EU Citizens can work and live in Switzerland if they want to, just that the Swiss Government will give them a Work Permit (that is really easy to get) you just have to enter Switzerland, register yourself in the City Hall of the city you want to live, they will give you a Permit for 3 months which allows you to look for a job then when you get the job they will give you a Work Permit from 1 to 5 years depending on your contract. When your Work Permit is finished you can easily renew it. If you are not an EU Citizen then you can not follow these procedures, what you can do is look for a job (Qualified jobs only) from your country and then the company that wants to hire you will need to demonstrate that there is no other Swiss or EU Citizen that can do that job (Similar to the US Work Visa) Cheers!
EDIT: And of course Swiss Citizens can work and live in the European Union as well.
I remember we had a class trip from Norway to Poland and Germany to learn about the holocaust and other events from WW2 and the cold war. We traveled through Sweden, Germany and Poland and we weren't stopped to check our passports not even once. We still had our passports just in case the bus needed to be searched.
I've heard conflicting accounts of Andorra stamping entry and exit stamps. Anyone have experiences? I raise the issue because, in theory, couldn't US citizen stay 90 days in Schengen, and then enter Andorra for another 90, before returning to Schengen?
I'd imagine that case is so niche that you won't get a straight answer here if you're really going to want to do that you'd probably be best off getting in touch with Spanish and Andorra immigration and asking them. If they say it is allowed bring the emails from them to show border officers and make sure you're stamped out of the schengen zone in case of issues at the border. Just make sure it isn't a similar situation as with the USA and the rest of North America for us under the visa free and ESTA programs that if we leave the USA into Mexico or Canada and then reenter the US it will count towards the original 90 days visa free stay we have to exit North America to reset the 90 days. It doesn't seem to be a time limit on that so would seem I wouldn't be eligible to reenter the USA after a 90 day stay visa free even if i was in Canada for the full 6 months I can be in there there visa free between.
As EU/EEA Citizens you can move to Switzerland without a visa you just have to register with town hall and Swiss Citizens can move freely within the EEA
Whenever I go from Hungary or Slovenia to Croatia I have to wait about 2 hours to cross the border despite both of them being in the EU. Also why is Greece in the Schengen Area if it's not connected by land to the rest of the Schengen Area? Is it for boats?
Slav Dog Boats indeed. There are a lot of ferries between Italy and Greece for example. Last year I took a ferry from Bari in Italy to Igoumenitsa in Greece. No border control. And let’s not forget air travel, I bet a LOT of people enter/leave Greece by airplane.
You also dont need a passport to travel from Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and probably Cyprus into the Schengen area. You just need your personal ID card (which you are required to have with you by law in all public places anyway).
Also the citizens of countries which made up former Yugoslavia also dont need any passport to travel inside that former Yugoslavia area, just an ID card. I am not sure if that applies to other Europeans though.
Yeah, I've traveled from Serbia to Montenegro (for vacation) 13 times already and they only ask for ID cards
Yes but this only applies to EU citizens. EU citizens can indeed travel all around the EU + EFTA with their ID cards only. However, third country nationals must have a passport.
I've been to Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Bośnia and Hercegovina and there you just can cross the borders with ID card as well
I have never heard of it but I’m still watching this
This is called being American
I’m Australian so this is awkward
@@laclarous9282 edit: or from the place that doesn't exist
ugh you caught me fine the Australia thing is a lie
0:45 abolish border *controls*, not borders themselves! Different laws still apply in different counties.
3:20 not true. Eu and Eea citizens can live and work freely in Switzerland and Swiss can in the EU and Eea under a separate agreement
As someone who lives on an archipelago I can't relate to border disputes or gateways.
Great video. I want to add some things:
Gibraltar could be added to the category of San Marino, Monaco and the Vatican, as they normally don't have border checks, although not beeing part of Schengen, and having customs on goods. However immigration offices will check you if you fly from Gibraltar to England.
The other overseas territorries of the UK also have their own Visa policies and customs like the french ones.
Ceuta and Melilla in Spain are also special cases, since they partially have their own visa policy to allow moroccans from nearby provinces to enter the towns without a visa. However Spain has customs on ships or flights between the exclaves and the mainland.
I really enjoyed the video, greetings from Austria.
Borders had theirs climate, now within the shengen zone it's just a roadsign on the side of a motorway. Put just a speed limit there, 70 kph is fine, so you will feel that you are crossing the border, that is the effect of a milenium of disputes and wars.
I still don't understand how schengen system works with Iceland? Like what difference does it make?
I flew from London to Berlin in '05. The line for immigration in Berlin was quicker for non-EU travellers (like me).
Speaking of passport checks, they’re really rare. I’m almost never checked. Even at the airport
Most of the time the thing that makes you realise that you are in another country now, is the text message you get from your phone-serviceprovider
Fun Fact: When you are traveling from Czechia to Slovakia and reverse, you don’t need your passport only personal ID. Maybe it is beacuse of Czechoslovakia or Schengen area idk.
UK and Ireland: islands are different
Also UK and Ireland: *creates a common travel area between their two different islands*
The CTA is more than just those two islands it includes the Isle of man and the channel islands too.
Really, it's the UK saying islands are different, Ireland has to do what the UK does regarding Schengen, because otherwise there'd be a hard border, which wouldn't end well
I live in Tyrol and we go buy cheaper things in Germany and Italy. one capitel is nearer to me than vienna. And it is the capitel of liechtenstein
south or north?
In this comments section, there's some confusion about the EEA, the European Single Market and the EFTA with respect to Switzerland.
It should be interesting then to recapitulate what the European Single Market actually is, and how Switzerland came to have access to it.
In principle, the European Single Market encompasses the member states of the European Economic Area (EEA).
The EEA core itself consists of just all EU members (plus the provisional EU member Croatia, granting it a provisional EEA access).
At the time signing this agreement in 1992 (which went in force in 1994), the then existing EU members thought it only to be a matter of time, until all EFTA members would join the EU anyway, and in anticipation of such a move offered them almost complete access to the EEA as well.
In 1992, the 7 EFTA members Austria, Finland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Sweden and also Switzerland all signed the EEA agreement.
The Swiss government thought it to be a good idea to play with all the other players, but in the end, the agreement was not ratified due to a national referendum.
As a consequence, the EEA consists of all EU + EFTA members, with the exception of Switzerland.
As legally set forth in the EEA agreement, the participating EFTA members (all except Switzerland) accept all EEA-relevant legislation automatically and are required to implement them into national law. This constitutes the so-called fax legislation.
Austria, Finland and Sweden joined the EU in 1995, obtaining full rights (and obligations) of the EEA agreement. Thus the EFTA was reduced to the 4 countries Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Norway attempted to join the EU a second time (after 1973) in 1995, but failed again in a national referendum.
Hence Switzerland, not having signed the EEA to avoid fax legislation (which by the way is also something the UK tries to avoid, one of tbe causes leading to Brexit) did not have access to the European Single Market.
But it nevertheless found a way into it. This is how:
It negotiated an impressive 10 bilateral treaties, of which the very first is the Free Movement of People, which can not be waived, as Switzerland had to learn recently when attempting to implement a referendum. At least not without simultaneously giving up 6 other bilateral treaties of the so-called "Bilaterals I" package, comprising access to the European Single Market. Additionally, these 10 bilaterals are accompanied by literally several hundred of further agreements.
To stress the important point clearly: the "Swiss Model" unconditionally includes the Freedom of Movement. Else there is no access to the market.
Besides: How much time do you think was needed to forge these 10 bilaterals and the several hundred agreements? I can tell you: it took decades, keeping busy a lot of skilled professional negotiation teams. Which is why the EU has made it very clear, that the Swiss model will never again be offered to any other country.
I live in Sweden and I travelled with my current passport ten times to seven countries + on a 24 hour cruise between Sweden and Finland without going ashore. Only got my passport stamped twice - in Turkey (which I travelled to from Greece) and the US (my previous passport also had a stamp from Turkey)! Could've gotten a stamp from Albania or another from Turkey if my most recent vacation hadn't been to Greece. I'll be visiting Denmark and Germany this summer which will probably be the last trip before I have to renew it!
How is the rest of the world doing? :)
Going from one schengen to anther is basicaly like crossing state lines in the US.
Yeah
Need to check especially someone from part of middle middle
I’m from the UK but my passport has never been stamped when I’ve gone to Europe...
Because the UK is (for now) an EU nation so there is freedom of movement. Schengen makes a difference in this simply for non-Europeans because a Schengen Visa won't let them enter the UK and vice versa.
I don't know why the US and Canada also do such kind of free movement they have so many crossings it would save the US a lot of money and create new markets.
Well ye I guess it’s right but there are a few more countries such as Croatia etc.
I have an Asian gf who needs a Visa to be able to visit me in the Netherlands.
She has to apply for a Visa in the Netherlands embassy, but when she's granted a Visa it's a Schengen Visa meaning we can travel to almost all countries in Europe. UK is excluded but aside from that I'm really happy being able to travel around with her all over Europe. Schengen is a great thing.
I want to make an extra remark about Andorra, that's not a Schengen country and no EU member, but they have a policy that anyone that's allowed to travel in Spain/France is also allowed to enter Andorra. So me and my gf also visited Andorra last year!
Why have a girlfriend in another country? Why not have a girlfriend who lives near you?
@@arte0021 coincidence, I found her before I found someone nearby.
I'm proud to be part of the European Union!
Me too!
Me too
Me too
Im still waiting to be a part of it
The EU is a great idea, but has succumb to corruption and become undemocratic. It needs to be reformed.
I’ve visited 5 country’s and I still don’t have a passport
Eu countries aren't really different countries... They're pretty much states of the EU, it's not a single country yet but it's getting closer to being one fast
shhhh you'll trigger the euro skeptics :P
@@tententononce2570 The second time I see you right-wing troll
@The Nova renaissance short story: Either you are not German or you are but do not vote for the CDU (which is understandable since RUclips and CDU are a strange combination)
@The Nova renaissance what ? À Californian don't elect a congressman for Vermont and vice versa. We're a confederation
@The Nova renaissance and so you do with the party that elects the president of each branch of the EU
As a pole living in the Uk I'm very confused .I remember when before brexit I had to show passport to buy alcohol as the shop floor women doesn't understand my id card .It is annoying situation.now I have two passports and I have more problems because i keep changing place for them and i may lose them while id card is small ,easy to travel ,cheap to release ..
Well idrc because it's always good to have a passport anyway and I live in the us and we can go freely between states and euope and some aisa and Australia and new Zealand
Fat Earther in which is amazing but I said it was just a good thing to have a passport
0:55 Croatia is not shown, great video =D
It is EU 🇪🇺 but neither Schengen nor Eurozone
Actually didnt had a passport until i was 35 or so because i was only travelling in EU countries (only ID card needed). Only got one because of some sailing trip through the carribean.
In most EU airports, you don’t need to go through the whole immigration process, if you’re travelling within EU. Basically as an EU citizen I can just use my Czech ID card at the airport if I’m travelling within Shengen/EU :D So much faster
Is there any place in the world with open borders outside the schengen area?
@Kinickylj do the USA and Canada have open borders?
Oh so it’s basically a area where lots of countries have free borders I didn’t know that
Is very close to being as if it was domestic travel, but not really.
Jackso Mapper you still have got some restriction at customs, but these are way higher than normal customs between e.g. Canada and Germany (-> more customs-free shopping)
@@DomqE "some retriction at customs" there's not such thing between EU States.
Enrique Lareo yes there is! Did not you ever heard of so called 'goods subject to excise duty' (verbrauchssteuerpflichtige Waren)? Such goods are: coffee, tobacco, alcohol.
Other restrictions exist concerning pharmaceuticals, rifles, ammunition (rather because of different laws, than of customs).
3:13 The Non-Swiss EU citizens can live and work in Switzerland due to some bilateral agreements. This situation is called Personenfreizügigkeit in German and it makes the Swiss angry, since for instance workers from Germany agree to work on a lower salary the the Swiss ones.
Ötzi same happens to the rest of Europe people from fucking Eastern Europe and work for cheap
Dude Euro road trip in 2017 no body asked me for ID or passport I hardly saw police anyway....super civilized area and peaceful
Agreed. Where are you from ?
EU : You also want to join Schengen area too?
Kaliningrad : I cant, motherland will be mad at me
This is great bc I'm in Europe bc of the military and it's a relief to not have to have a passport to travel.
When you have traveled to 20 countries but you don't have a passport
I remember one time my school was planning a trip to Rome and most of my classmates, all of them Spanish citizens with perfectly valid Spanish ID cards were like "Yeah, we need to get passports" And spent 30€ in a useless passport.
I felt very disappointed.
Whelp,there gose my dreams of running around Europe like a maniac with my family.
Why?
Not really
Dual citizen of Italy and the United States! I have an insane level of visa free travel and can live in the US, COFA, and anywhere in the EU and Schengen Area indefinitely without restrictions! #dualcitizenlife #schengenlife
Adrian Motley but you still have to pay taxes as an american citizen when you live abroad
2:01 Prague airport