UK: Islands work different Iceland: yeah sure

When Switzerland forgets they're neutral.

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.

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!

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... :)

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.

3:12 Wrong, Switzerland and th EU have bilateral agreements allowing Swiss and EU citizens to live in both places

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)

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

“Roughly 1.7 million people cross an international border every day in the EU. **Covid-19 screams**

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

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.

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.

You are so underrated and need more views.

I was a sub since 200 subs man love how you have developed :)

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

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

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.

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. I'm also a KZfaqr but I just started. Good luck!

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.

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.

Your an awesome KZfaq so underrated thank man keep up the hard work

If shengen falls the Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog towns are stille fine because we still have the BeNeLux union.

LOve your videos man. Keep up the good work :)

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!

"Wait, I was neutral..." -Switzerland

0:59 thanks for being in the video :D

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!

2:46. Yes, there is a railway line in the Vatican City. EDIT: Corrected the time.

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)

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.

A nice video for a good night. See y'all tomorrow!

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

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 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.

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

Great work! Also, you used footage of my town's subway, literally the line I use EVERYDAY xD

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?

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.

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.

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 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

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

I love the sole fact that you were not afraid to pronounce 'Szczecin' in 4.45

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.

Im here from Alliterative. Subscribed.

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I loved the PBS reference in the sponsors

Literally the best thing in Europe

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...

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.

"Immigration and customs are two different things". Shows passport control (immigration) and security (something very different, not related to either).

Well ye I guess it’s right but there are a few more countries such as Croatia etc.

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.

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

I flew from London to Berlin in '05. The line for immigration in Berlin was quicker for non-EU travellers (like me).

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

Good

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

[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).

0:45 abolish border *controls*, not borders themselves! Different laws still apply in different counties.

3:24 this is the border between Kreuzlingen and Konstanz.

As someone who lives on an archipelago I can't relate to border disputes or gateways.

Need to check especially someone from part of middle middle

I have never heard of it but I’m still watching this

Speaking of passport checks, they’re really rare. I’m almost never checked. Even at the airport

0:48 ALBANIA is in schengen area too 🇦🇱🖐😉

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.

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 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!

I wonder if i can cross ( bulgaria , romania ) by Schengen visa , i m from iraq and i want to cross from Turkey to germany?

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

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 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

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

2:01 Prague airport

I live in Western Germany and I go next weekend in the Netherlands for a night and go then back, all by train

0:22 Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog...that's a lot of exclave border gore but not as bad as the former border between India and Bangladesh

I still don't understand how schengen system works with Iceland? Like what difference does it make?

I live in the US, and people have swam the 23 miles from here to Canada.

If you walk through the Schengen area with military equipment does that count as invasion?

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.

If I depart from Sweden to drive to the UK only need to show passports at the eurotunell.

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.

I’ve visited 5 country’s and I still don’t have a passport

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

We don't need a passport to go to Ireland or the UK (at least for now). They have special channel to check EU citizens were those only need to present the national ID and unless you are a criminal, you are not barried from entering. for what I've seen, it works the same for the overseas territories that are not officially in the EU, but always better to check.

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.

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 ..

0:55 Croatia is not shown, great video =D

Well some of these Schengen borders can depend on time of day or duty schedules of officials. Some years ago we arrived on a transatlantic flight from the US into Amsterdam and were connecting to a flight to Florence in Italy a rather small regional airport. We were a bit surprised that there was no passport control to go through in Amsterdam early in the morning, but were advised that would be done in Italy. Naturally we were mixed with EU passengers on that flight and upon arrival there were no further formalities. Two Carabinieri (state police officers) were questioning some Africans but when we waved our passports and inquired they took little notice and waved us on. On the way home in the middle of the day the Dutch were prepared to examine passports as part of departure duties.

The 4 micro-states of Andorra, san Marino, Monaco and Vatican are open borders only but they are not part of EU neither Schengen they even use Euro too

I'm proud to be part of the European Union!

Also Norway is in the eu, it’s just it doesn’t have to do stuff that they do etc.