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You forgot about French Guyana in South America. Its a part of France like Alaska is to the USA. That means you have a part of the EU in South America.
The French - Brazil and French - Suriname Borders are also very worth mentioning because technically the EU has borders in South America too. So the EU is actually on 3 different continents
We also have North America because of Greenland. Although they're outside the Economic Zone, it's population are considered EU citizens and (I believe) you can go there from Denmark without a Passport. We'll get Asia too as soon as somewhere like Georgia or Kazakhstan join. That just leaves a land boarder with Australia or New Zealand...
As far as I know, the creator gets payed if you A) Watch the complete add B) Watch the first 30 seconds of the add Whichever is shorter. So after 30 seconds you can skip the add without harming the creator.
I just came from the end-of-the-year party at my little brother's school and they made a show about european countries, they made a little spectacle on some of them and with time they would draw the stars on the flag and in the emd they sang the european anthem. Everyone applauded.
Actually, entry to the EU from Russia is remarkably hard, at least in Estonia. There are always gigantic queues and getting turned down, when trying to enter, is a very real possibility. Entry to Finland seems to be indeed easier, though.
By the way, there is a border control between Denmark and Sweden (across the bridge Øresundsbron), despite both countries being members of the EU and Schengen.
The most interesting EU border I have crossed is the one in Velke Slemence on the Ukrainian-Slovakian border. A village divided in two by Stalin that until 2005 involved a 200km round trip to get from one side to the other. You can now walk across it after going through passport control. Interesting to see how bad our obsession with dividing the world up can be.
It's funny that, as I'm so used to EU borders when I went to Andorra it seemed a hard border, just for having police there. I was thinking, wow they might be chequing our car license plate
You should -hertog an baarle-nassau. that's a messy border system but really uses their own postal services, drinking ages, etc. fun spot to take a look at on google maps
The problem with people who are against the EU is, they only see the parts that they want to see. For example, the fact that anyone from anywhere in Europe can work in the country, the fact that we have to give the EU money, the fact that we have to follow laws, but they only give the laws that work in favour. I've never heard anyone complain about the EU Human rights law, or the EU Data Privacy Directive, or The right to be forgotten, the EU Court of Human Rights, or Working time directive,
Red Viper as a Welshman I’d rather be in a European super state rather than the uk for the reasons listed in your comment and since they support cultural project much more than the uk
"The problem with people who are against the EU is, they only see the parts that they want to see." You can pretty much extrapolate that line of thought to every political issue ever. Every political alignment (aside from the odd radical) has good and bad sides, and pretty much everyone sees only the goods in one's ideology and the bads in everybody else's (while at the same time having a blind spot for the bads in one's ideology and the goods in everybody else's).
The whole Brexit vote was a perfect example of what is wrong with modern politics (in the UK anyway). Democracy is supposed to be about giving the public a choice, a vote. However what it actually ends up being is two or more sides all trying their best to manipulate people into doing what *they* want, rather than just presenting the options clearly as they are.
Random checks are still preformed. I crossed Schengen Borders at least 10 times this year alone, including the Danish-Swedish border, and I haven't been checked at any schengen border in my life.
+szozk I'm fairly certain it wasn't just a random check. Apparently they've been doing it only for the past year or so. You even show your passport going over in a car.
Polish people are allowed to go to certain areas of Belarus for a couple of days without having to get a visa, so Belarus doesn’t have the same border policies as Russia
Has a romanian i find this ofensiv and funy at the same time ..I do have moghiar friends and no problem about the history I think we shuld by friends now days and fuck the blody past
The Andorra border check really surprised me. I went to Andorra several times, and on the border with France there was never anything like what's shown on street view at the border with Spain. Also, I crossed the "green border" many many times - I guess that's not exactly legal? :-D Do you have any information on that?
The Gibraltar and Spain border is already a hard border. With Gibraltar being outside of EU Customs area, there is a lot of issues with tobacco smuggling and limits on what you can take across. Lengthy border queues are commonplace here, and as we know. Spain have used the border in political disputes and created longer queues. And yes thousands of people cross from Spain into Gibraltar (UK) every day to work because there are more jobs there and the pay is better than in Spain.
What about French Guiana? And you should have also covered Mount Athos and the maritime borders of Malta, Lampedusa, Mayote, Aegean Islands and Canary Islands, that are some of the most threating points for illegal immigration... Andorra, Switzerland or even Russia aren't our big deal.
Borders between Switzerland and the EU still exist and you have border controls (however, this is due to not being part of the custom union; people can move freely though) Also, Switzerland is not part of the EEA Finally, Switzerland is part of Schengen. Through bilateral agreements, but it's part of it nonetheless.
If I remember correctly, you can't travel from turkish occupied cyprus to the republic of cyprus? Only from the south to the north and you've gotta be back before a certain time.. But the paper I read on that was like 20 years old.. soooo maybe it changed since then
Interesting video. However, Andorra is not an EU-member and doesn't belong to the Schengen area. Switzerland and Liechtenstein are both not EU-members, but both are part of the Schengen area. The same applies to Iceland and Norway
People who have been granted asylum in an EU country are allowed to move in the Schengen area but only within the same restrictions as other non-EU nationals. Asylum seekers who have not yet been granted asylum are not allowed to leave the country. Technically you're supposed to apply for asylum in the first EU country you enter but as seen in the recent refugee crisis, that's not a system that actually works. It would have been impossible for Greece to process everyone's applications so they just let them pass through and apply elsewhere.
hi there, i love my borders and maps. I am sure you missed the EU Suriname and EU Braizil borders. Still good video but you forgot the border everybody forgets
Estonian citizenship is indeed easy to get - you only have to show you have a relationship to the country, learn the language, pass the test and do a citizenship test meaning having to write down things russians are unable to agree with (Peace of Tartu, illegal occupation...) meaning estonia still has 14% of population without any citizenship at all so i wouldn't really call it the easy & preferred entry to the EU
Well if those russians aren't accepting that invading another country isn't legal, or recognise a negotiated peace after the people revolted after a long occupation, maybe it's their problem and not Estonias. If you're living in a country and don't want to learn the language and adapt somewhat to the local way of life, it's not the locals that have a problem, it's you. If they really hate Estonia and it's existence so much, I'm pretty sure they're free to leave whenever they see fit.
Ostpreußen is wrong, because it consisted of more than just Königsberg. Also the pronunciation of Kaliningrad is not wrong, it's just the new pronunciation.
TR-BG-GR border is very weird. Turkey is a member of European Customs Area but goods has to be declared anyway. I think this tax border will continue even post-Schengen.
"Really makes you question what does country really mean in the 21st century? Well to most a country is something similar cultured people create to protect themselves from outside/common threats and does other various things with the peoples best interest in mind. The EU though utterly fails at this in many ways but that's not the point.
0:32 So wait a minute. When the UK was part of the EU, according to that logic England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are all countries with a country (UK) within a country (EU).
"A Schengen-like agreement that's not Schengen"... What if the U.K. had a "Single Market-like agreement that's not the Single Market"? It's a "Hard Brexit", but a "Soft Brexit" in every other thing but letter of the law.
The only point of contention on the single market is free movement, which the UK already has every imaginable opt out on without fully being able to take it away - I think that's the only thing stopping that
ibx2cat If there are so many British citizens living in EU countries and vice versa, it may be pretty difficult to simply stop freedom of movement entirely, although I'm not sure what else the EU could allow the U.K. to do for non-EU nationals. (I keep seeing that freedom of movement between the U.K. and EU will be here to stay, but that could possibly change.)
cyndie26 He got mixed up there. Switzerland is fully in Schengen just like any other Schengen member state. It’s the trading relationship that is pretty much a “single market-like agreement that’s not the single market”. Switzerland has dozens of so called bilateral treaties with the EU that give it access to many parts of the EU single market as if it were a member. The trade off is that Switzerland has to follow most EU rules and regulations without having any influence on how they’re written. It also has to make financial contributions to the EU and it has to accept freedom of movement for EU/EEA citizens.
ibx2cat That is a huge point of contention. The central point of the single market is that it provides the “4 pillars of free movement” for goods, services, capital and people. The EU has never allowed anyone to choose which ones to accept and which ones to reject. Either you have all of them or you have none, just ask Switzerland and Norway. Switzerland’s bilateral treaties with the EU even contain a “guillotine clause” that basically states that if Switzerland were to end free movement of people for EU citizens all bilateral treaties between the EU and Switzerland would become null and void. When the EU says that the 4 freedoms are not negotiable they mean it.
So there is going to be free movement between the UK and Ireland, also free movement between Ireland and the EU, but not free movement between the UK and the EU. How can those things possibly coexist?
Oleg Abbatini If free movement between the UK and Ireland, which has existed pretty much since Irish independence, remains in place, I suspect that border controls between the Common Travel Area (UK+IRL) and the Schengen Area (EU) will have to become stricter to enforce immigration controls for British citizens. Irish citizens will retain their right to live and work in the EU while British citizens will lose the right to live and work in the EU.
CRIS WTF 34 No, the people who argued for brexit explicitly said that they wanted to restrict EU immigration. Free movement between the EU and UK will end, which affects Europeans only. Not much will change for third country (non-EU) nationals because freedom of movement never applied to them anyways.
If you watched the video he explained why. As soon as people step on ANY EU country territory and those people are fleeing from war, unfair persecution, death in their country because they vote on another political party/get locked up for it or want to start their own party etc etc, the EU country which they stepped on cannot refuse them to give asylum.
^ But the people flooding the EU aren't fleeing any of those things. That's the problem. They are economic migrants coming to take advantage of welfare. They are flooding in from all over Africa and the Middle East. Europe is fucked if they don't wake up soon.
I live in Sweden and I recently went to Estonia with my family (my mother's from Tallinn) and bought some drinks in plastics bottles. I drank up all the goodies in the bottles a few days after I came home and wanted to go to the store to return them for money (for the deposit), but found out that you cannot return bottles from other countries. Despite the deposit being virtually the same in both Sweden and Estonia. This utter stupidity, in my opinion, proves that the EU is _not_ a country.... yet. :p P.S: If you wanted to know, what I bought in Estonia, it was kvass and Estonian limonaad. You can't really get those things here.
