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I'm sorry but this is simply not true. In central EU, you can travel anywhere without any check. And this is huge compared to 20 years ago

by Faaak 4y ago

ilikehurdles 4y ago
Random checks may still occur.
smatija 4y ago
Looks like you didn't have to wait at Karavanke tunnel between Slovenia and Austria yet. Selective checks by Austrian police are practically hourly and they cause traffic jams up to Jesenice (10-15km) on regular basic during vacation season.
- izacus 4y ago
  Austria has been punished by EU court for those extra checks. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/04/28/can-eu-countries-introduce-border-checks-between-each-other-this-is-what-the-ecj-says https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/04/28/can-eu-countri...
kgeist 4y ago
On my first trip from Czech Republic to Germany in 2008 (as a foreign student from Eastern Europe) I was surprised there was German police checking passengers' IDs. I didn't have all the required documents with me because I thought there would be no checks at all because I had a Schengen visa. Fortunately the police officers were pretty cool and left me alone after I explained who I was and why I didn't have all the documents with me.
- Scoundreller 4y ago
  France was still doing internal border controls at airports "temporarily for 6 months due to exception circumstances" but renews them repeatedly so it's not really temporary. A big waste of time when they do this in Toulouse on a flight from Brussels when you could drive to France faster without a border control. Most of EU has legally done this, but actual application is more patchy: https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-and-visa/schengen-area/temporary-reintroduction-border-control_en https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-...
nibbleshifter 4y ago
There's still the occasional customs check inside schengen, for example the flixbus from Prague or Amsterdam to Berlin always seems to get controlled by the German police and a drug sniffing dog.
- mardifoufs 4y ago
  Do they mostly control for drugs? Or are there other types of controls? Like do they usually check for passports and ID?
  - Xylakant 4y ago
    At the moment, there are checks in quite a few places, we crossed over from Riga to Poland by bus a few days ago and they’ve checked the bus. But they were mostly interested in Russian passports and Visa. Similar from Germany to Denmark and Germany-Poland a few weeks earlier as well as Poland-Czech Republic-Austria. I believe it’s mostly related to the war in Ukraine, since I had no similar experience in the more western parts of Europe (Austria/Germany, Germany/France)
  - nibbleshifter 4y ago
    They check for ID at the same time quite often. Just to look at briefly usually.
0x_rs 4y ago
>without any checks Not necessarily true, any country can legitimately or not (there are some regulations on this practice, often breached) force them, for mere political shows of force too, here's one recent such example. https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/11/17/france-italy-border-tightened-as-france-warns-of-serious-passport-checks-and-queues https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/11/17/france-italy-bord...

I'm sorry but this is simply not true. In central EU, you can travel anywhere without any check. And this is huge compared to 20 years ago

by Faaak 4y ago

I'm sorry but this is simply not true. In central EU, you can travel anywhere without any check. And this is huge compared to 20 years ago

ilikehurdles 4y ago

Random checks may still occur.

smatija 4y ago

Looks like you didn't have to wait at Karavanke tunnel between Slovenia and Austria yet. Selective checks by Austrian police are practically hourly and they cause traffic jams up to Jesenice (10-15km) on regular basic during vacation season.

izacus 4y ago
Austria has been punished by EU court for those extra checks. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/04/28/can-eu-countries-introduce-border-checks-between-each-other-this-is-what-the-ecj-says https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/04/28/can-eu-countri...

kgeist 4y ago

On my first trip from Czech Republic to Germany in 2008 (as a foreign student from Eastern Europe) I was surprised there was German police checking passengers' IDs. I didn't have all the required documents with me because I thought there would be no checks at all because I had a Schengen visa. Fortunately the police officers were pretty cool and left me alone after I explained who I was and why I didn't have all the documents with me.

Scoundreller 4y ago
France was still doing internal border controls at airports "temporarily for 6 months due to exception circumstances" but renews them repeatedly so it's not really temporary. A big waste of time when they do this in Toulouse on a flight from Brussels when you could drive to France faster without a border control. Most of EU has legally done this, but actual application is more patchy: https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-and-visa/schengen-area/temporary-reintroduction-border-control_en https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-...

nibbleshifter 4y ago

There's still the occasional customs check inside schengen, for example the flixbus from Prague or Amsterdam to Berlin always seems to get controlled by the German police and a drug sniffing dog.

mardifoufs 4y ago
Do they mostly control for drugs? Or are there other types of controls? Like do they usually check for passports and ID?
- Xylakant 4y ago
  At the moment, there are checks in quite a few places, we crossed over from Riga to Poland by bus a few days ago and they’ve checked the bus. But they were mostly interested in Russian passports and Visa. Similar from Germany to Denmark and Germany-Poland a few weeks earlier as well as Poland-Czech Republic-Austria. I believe it’s mostly related to the war in Ukraine, since I had no similar experience in the more western parts of Europe (Austria/Germany, Germany/France)
- nibbleshifter 4y ago
  They check for ID at the same time quite often. Just to look at briefly usually.

0x_rs 4y ago

>without any checks Not necessarily true, any country can legitimately or not (there are some regulations on this practice, often breached) force them, for mere political shows of force too, here's one recent such example. https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/11/17/france-italy-border-tightened-as-france-warns-of-serious-passport-checks-and-queues https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/11/17/france-italy-bord...