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There are also passport checks when you fly to Norway from other EU countries. For flights between other EU countries you generally just show the QR code on yo
by yarcob 6y ago
There are also passport checks when you fly to Norway from other EU countries. For flights between other EU countries you generally just show the QR code on your phone. At least that was my experience, but it's been a few years since I last flew. (Except flights to UK before Brexit, I think they always required passport checks)
- dmitriid 6y ago> There are also passport checks when you fly to Norway from other EU countries. Except countries in the Nordic Passport Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Passport_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Passport_Union You need zero documents to travel between these (well, you need a ticket if you fly or travel by train or a bus).
- yarcob 6y agoSo I read the article, and in theory there should be no passport checks with other EU countries either because of Schengen, but apparently they have "temporary border controls" since 2015 in violation of the agreements.
- dmitriid 6y agoIndeed. I flew to Norway from Stockholm before 2015, and I was very surprised to just pass directly to the gate (and same on the way back).
- gspr 6y ago> There are also passport checks when you fly to Norway from other EU countries. This is incorrect. And the presence or absence of these checks is not a EU/EEA matter. The passport free movement is a matter of the Schengen agreement. This is why the UK had passport checks with most of continental Europe back when they were EU members (but not Schengen members). Norway is a Schengen member, and an EEA member, but not an EU member. This Venn diagram might help (note that it hasn't been updated for Brexit): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Supranational_European_Bodies-en.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Supranat...
- xxs 6y ago>note that it hasn't been updated for Brex Ah, even Croatia is outside the EU on the diagram - so it's way worse than that. That being said: Croatia is outside Schengen as well.
- yarcob 6y ago> This is incorrect You are right about Schengen. But I had to show my passport a couple of years ago on a flight from Vienna to Norway, so I thought they weren't part of Schengen. I'm not sure why, but I believe the reason must have been the "temporary border controls" introduced in 2015.
- gspr 6y agoYes. But that was a temporary, exceptional situation of border checks all over Europe.
- xxs 6y ago>passport checks ... between other EU countries The passport checks have nothing to do with the EU, it's the Schengen treaty[0] that allows omitting that part. Norway is a part of the treaty, so is Iceland for example. Some EU countries still don't meet the criteria to join, e.g. Romania, Bulgaria. Ireland and the UK are/were outside (voluntarily) of the treaty as well - which is one of the weirdest parts of the Brexit with the UK actually checking its own borders more than most of the rest of the EU. For example traveling from Poland to Norway by car (and ferry Tallinn - Helsinki) requires zero passport/id card checks. (id cards are a valid traveling document within the EU and Schengen) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area