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Generally, no, it did not. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have had travel without passport since 1952, and Iceland joined 1955, Faroe Islands in 1966. Sval
by ptaipale 10y ago
Generally, no, it did not. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have had travel without passport since 1952, and Iceland joined 1955, Faroe Islands in 1966. Svalbard (that belongs to Norway) is still excluded.
(In Schengen, you still need to have a passport or identity card, even if there are usually no checks; within the Nordic passport union area, that is not necessary for citizens.)
There are some checks in the ferries/trains between Denmark and Sweden. But I can step in my car and drive from here to Haparanda to Narvik and no one will stop me to ask for a passport.
- jdavis703 10y agoExactly this. Or take a plane. The checks aren't even run by official government agents, it's the railroad that does the checks for fear of fines.
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- vilhelm_s 10y agoThere is also an internal check by the Swedish police at Hyllie station on the Swedish side, which is done by government officials.[1] (They said in the long term, they hope to replace this system to instead have Swedish border police on the Danish side, in order to have one check instead of two [2]). But yeah, you can still avoid the ID controls by taking a car across the border instead of the train. [1] http://www.oresundsinstituttet.org/fakta-id-kontrollerna-over-oresund-forlanger-restiden-med-tag-till-sverige-med-mellan-10-och-50-minuter/ http://www.oresundsinstituttet.org/fakta-id-kontrollerna-ove... [2] http://www.sydsvenskan.se/2016-01-12/sa-ska-id-kontrollerna-forandras http://www.sydsvenskan.se/2016-01-12/sa-ska-id-kontrollerna-...