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If you’re a rail passenger Schengen is a myth

By Jon on October 30, 2009

Enough is enough. Why, oh why, are we re-establishing border controls in Europe, at least as far as night train passengers are concerned?
On the Amsterdam-München CityNightLine service last weekend Netherlands Police boarded the train at Venlo and shone a flashlight in everyone’s faces at the border.
Last night it was even more ludicrous – police controls (by French and Italian [...]

Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, Travel | Tagged Idiots, Schengen | 7 Responses

Pompous passport patrollers

By Jon on February 6, 2009

There’s nothing that manages to get my annoyed quite the way that border guards do. Especially when they are fat, pompous Austrians with a gun in a holster at their hip that greet you with ‘Grüß Gott’ and control your passport a few minutes after your train has left Brenner at the border between Italy [...]

Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, Travel | Tagged Austria, Brenner, Passports, Police, Schengen | 10 Responses

2009
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2008
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  My visits to London give me a short, sharp dose of news in the UK - and what a dose over the last
2007
- Skiing in Ã…re, hence little blogging
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2006
- Polly Toynbee on Sweden again
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