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> 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
by 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.