My daughter (7 years old, German) was with us in Netherlands, Denmark, Beglium, Austria, France and Italy. She never experienced a border control. For her, another country is only marked by a sign.
@@filipbitala2624 my father in law is Dutch, my grandfather migrated to France. I speak German, English, Netherlands, French and a little bit Spanish. German and English fluently. The cultural differences are a main reason for travelling around.
The fact that we have the right to be treated as any citizen of any other country of the EU can also be reflected outside the EU itself. For example if I'm abroad and something happens, even if there's no embassy or consulate of my own country, I've the right to be assisted by diplomats of other EU members
@@pfffetc6149 For example, if you are from France and find yourself in a country without a French Embassy, and you experience an unfortunate incident like losing your passport, you may seek assistance from the German Embassy. At the German Embassy, you have the right to a French-German translator. After explaining your situation, the German Embassy will contact the relevant services to help facilitate your return to France.
@@SmoczeKaloszeYa'll are our family after all. So we help you if needed and you help us. *Sigh* this populist far right wing wave we are looking at with basically nazism and calls to exit the EU is so sad. Im ashamed of our election results.
I come from the smallest country in the EU. We are an island nation in the meditteranean just off the coast of Sicily, of 17 miles in length by 9 miles in width. Joining the EU in 2004 and finally being able to move freely to other EU countries has been the biggest blessing. I spent half my life trapped on the little rock in the middle of the sea, only able to leave on very expensive flights to go on holiday as a tourist and never able to wonder off and experience real life. I can't ever imagine a life without free movement.
Before freedom of movement you had to apply for visa, sometimes it cost some money, sometimes not(maybe). Now you don't have to pay or ask anyone? This applies to any person 18 years or older on the day of arrival and staying at any type of accommodation. The charge is 0.50 Euros per person per night up to a maximum charge of 5 Euros per person. This charge applies to each continuous stay in the Maltese Islands and is charged by each hotel stayed in.
The air travel tax is imposed on flights departing from German airports. The amount depends on the distance to the destination country and is between €7.46 and €41.97 per passenger. The tax has to be paid by the respective airline. These taxes seem to exist in lot of EU countries
you said that you never left the US... you really should. Travelling abroad puts so much into perspective. You learn to appreciate what is done well at home but you also realise where there's still huge room for improvement.
But not to Columbia or any other typical American destination in Latin or South America, but to Europe. I knew a couple from New Mexico. They became speechless when they visited Vienna in Austria. The most frequently repeated phrase in their mouths was "how it is possible", "how it is possible."
I understand him if he doesn't want to visit Mexico or Canada. I lived in the USofA for work and visited both countries while living in the USofA. Border control is insane and takes hours especially on the way back from those countries. Crossing the border from Tijuana to San Diego was a nightmare. You won't believe the amount of armed people standing there and reacting very aggressively. No friendly border officer....
As a European born after the Schengen agreements, it's insane how I can't imagine living in a Europe with borders. It'd be so weird for us to get a passport to go to Spain, Italy or Germany. We just have this comfort and it's normal, it's expected and we're even entitled to it. I never want to go back on this.
Denmark is stubborn enough to keep renewing permission to have border control... First because Syrian refugees managed to walk through Europe, now because Swedish gangs keep shooting at eachother... But the good thing is that it's just a quick formality today. I'm old enough to remember when Germany had just been reunited. Going to CZ to PL and back to CZ was a chore... because they didn't automatically trust the 4 Danish passports we had in my family. The Danish/German border wasn't too bad, we kinda know eachother. Quick look and they send you on. But the line from Germany to the Czech Republic took a while... and going between CZ and Poland took a while, despite there was no queue... they were just not used to see Danish passports I guess. Anyway... Schengen has indeed made travelling easier... if I book a flight to Spain with a connection in Amsterdam, I only need passport when I enter the security zone of the first airport. After that I'm approved across EU.
You are lucky because of the f__ing politicians from Nederland and Austria I'm considered a second-hand European citizen. My country has been meeting all the conditions to enter the Schengen area for years. But votes are more important than my country rights and mine.
@@BenjaminVestergaardnow you know what it means to be Romanian and need to wait hours to pass the border. In August I wait 3-4 hours in the car at the border to enter my country or to leave. F__ Nederland and Austria.
@@dmax4838 as I said, I'm old enough to remember Europe with borders, where there weren't even common recognition of passports. But I can feel your frustration, and yes, Romania has been caught in "Schengen limbo" for too long. I haven't followed the case in detail, so I don't know who's been blocking what. It is a shame that a few members can block opening the inner borders by simply not trusting that a country can handle the outer borders... but the EU has a common organisation to handle those, think it's called frontex. And now that RO has been a well behaving member for so long, it doesn't make sense to not allow Schengen membership. Even non-EU countries, like Switzerland and Norway, gotten included in the meantime... I know there's a problem with less fortunate Romanians going to other EU countries to beg... but denying Schengen inclusion doesn't stop that anyway.
@@BenjaminVestergaard Romania has over 2000 km of borders that we guard and supervise, but half are with EU and NATO countries. If we eliminate controls at the borders with EU countries, we can move border guards to the other borders with non-EU countries and we would substantially increase security. Bulgaria is in the same situation. Move people from the border with Bulgaria and Hungary to the border with Serbia, Ukraine and Moldova. Bulgaria moves from our border to the border with Turkey and those from the border with Greece to the border with Serbia. Likewise, Hungary can move from the border with Romania to the borders with Ukraine and Serbia.
My daughter went to pre shool in Austria, then high school and matric in France, then university in England. This automatically gave her the advantage of speaking three main languages at mother tongue level: English, German and French. Next, she had a huge advantage applying for a job being fluent in three languages, knowing the cultures, and last but not least, she has a different perspective in a global sense, which was huge when she applied for jobs. She is in finance now, had the courage to turn down an offer from Goldman Sachs, as she prefered to work for a European company, even for a little less money but more free life. All this came from the ability to move freely within the EU. So this is education and prosperity. Then there is peace and understanding: I was talking to my French boy friend today about the Israel-Palestine war, and how this catastrophe is going on for 80 or so years. Now 80 years ago our countries were in a bloody war, France and Austria were enemies and its men killing each other. One of my grandfathers was in France during the war as a soldier. Today we cannot even imagine this hatred and war. We move freely between our countries, speak each other languages, enjoy the richness of our cultures, and our grandfathers killing war is like another planet. Imagine, if the same had happened between Israel and Palestine, what paradise this would be. You come at a crossroad and have to choose which way to go: is it hatred, war and oppression, or peace, understanding and prosperity?
Yes. I love how they decided to move forward after WWII and I also appreciate how the countries help each other. If their would be a medical emergency in Germany and a Dutch helicopter would be closer by that one could/ would for instance go. Or if it’s a big emergency and there’s not enough staff the other countries can help. And I feel like because you’re benefiting each other you’re also very unlikely to cause trouble. But in general it’s nice to get along with your neighbors so you can help each other out. In Corona time there weren’t enough beds in the Dutch ICU’s, but then Germany had space, so they took some. But just in general, in every day life, to be able to hop over the border and to be able to get stuff from your neighbors is nice. And then if one country has a national holiday or shops are closed on Sunday, you just to got your neighbor.
Schengen area, means I can drive from where I live in Lithuania all over to Spain without any border checks or anyone asking for a pasport. I can also enroll in a University or get a job in that country as if I was in my country. So in your case it's probably like going to a different state, only we do that with countries
Isn't your Lithuania a state covering several countries for example Samogitia and Sudavia? My Poland is a state covering many countries like eg. Mazovia, Silesia, Pommerania, Kuyavia etc. etc.
It's exactly like moving state in the US. Even in the US if you move state you need to register in the new state for tax purposes. The only real difference would be when moving country in the EU you get a new tax number for that country if you want to work. In the US you just use the same social security number. That's the only difference I can think of. Ohh and pensions, we don't have EU wide pensions so if you have a private pension in the EU you'd need to move it to you new country if you want to keep paying into it.
@@RazorMouth What an absurd comment. Comparing states of one country with different countries is ridiculous. Someone who moves from one province to another in France, or from one lander to othe rin Germany also use the same social security number BECAUSE THEY ARE WITHIN THE SAME COUNTRY.
This must have been made before the UK Brexit vote. Unfortunately, my compatriots voted to leave the EU. Now we have all the hassle when travelling to the continent and young people are denied the opportunities they once had. I think people are beginning to realise it was a mistake to leave.
Yup the UK should have stayed with Europe period. United we stand and Divided we fall and right now the UK is falling unfortunately. Stay strong over there and greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱
@@cartmanbraahnd6660 First, you already now need a passport and normally have boarder controls. So you cannot just go somewhere freely. Plus, I guess you are aware that from January on you will need to apply for a visa if you wanna enter the EU from the UK!?
Many images come from UK. This country has decided to leave the European Union and is considered a third country whose inhabitants no longer have freedom of movement within the European Union and are granted visas of 3 to 6 months maximum. On the other hand, customs formalities weigh heavily on the transport of goods from the UK.As a member of the European Union UK was like all the countries of the Union a lawmaker, now a lawtaker.
@Klaatu-gI7jg “lawmaker, now a lawtaker” Not because of the vote to leave but because of a political system that was shocked by, refused to accept, and was determined not to implement the vote but BRINA
Interestingly enough, UK was against "freedoms" that 3rd countries had, and wanted the EU to be much stricter. Which EU became, but UK still decided to leave. Now that UK is a 3rd country (they could have been 2nd, but wasted the possibility), they are shocked by how badly they are treated. They thought they would stop freedom of movement to UK, but not their own. They thought UK was too important to not be treated like they used to (aka, they would keep of the privileges of being an EU-member, without having to treat other EU-members the same). Now a lot of UK citizens think that they are being punished by EU, when they are just treated like they wanted 3rd countries to be treated. 🤷♀ It's quite entertaining to watch videos on UK after Brexit.
@@MagdalenaBozyk See previous comment explaining that what happened, and what hasn’t happened, is not because of the vote to leave but *because of a political system* that was shocked by, refused to accept, and was determined not to implement the vote, but Brexit In Name Only
You've really grown a lot in your understanding of the world, Ryan, and it is beautiful to see. Your instincts on what a good world would look like are also spot-on. There are wealthy interests against letting such a world come to be, but if enough people work together, I am optimistic enough that we _can_ make it happen, one day.
Brexit was horrible for a lot of people and still is. As for the Schengen borders, a lot of people are at least skeptical. In Norway, for instance, we have a lot of "hit and run" crime, where they enter the country in the afternoon, break into shops at night and leave the country in the morning. But the solution is not necessarily to close the borders, but to improve collaboration between police forces.
brexit was mostly horrible for the eu since you lost your second largest contributor and now you have to go into debt to cover the giant hole the uk left in the eu
@@husker9263 In these stories it is mostly Romanians or other EU countries that are located east of Germany. We (German here) have these stories as well and the idea that this can be fixed by keeping these pesky easterners out sells reaaaalllly good in certain political parties.
@@test-201: What exactly is it that you bring to the table? As a Norwegian, I love the British, but to be honest, I don't know what I've lost from your refusal to do business with us. London is out of the game, but what's wrong with Paris?
@@jeschinstad your country has a population of 5 million you're a liability to do business with the only reason you can do business is because your neighbours are much bigger and stronger
Never heard of this. Maybe it's cause my home country Finland doesn't have that many easily accessible borders (only feasible fast route in is a ship from Tallinn)
Well, let me give you two more - having lived in the USA for three years myself. 1. The right to not be sued and made to go to court again and again for some stupid frivolous reason or because a lawyer thinks that they can get some money from you. In my first month i was driving when I noticed a guy on a bike crossing the street in front of me, on a bicycle crossing path. Naturally I stopped, I wasn't going to hit him. Unfortunately the young girl driving on the right lane didn't and hit him. A few months later I found out that I am being sued because "by stopping I assumed responsibility for the guy". I had to give a sworn deposition, I was questioned endlessly by the guy's lawyer. When they saw that I'm not an idiot, I don't contradict myself and they can't make me loose my calm, they told me that I'm excused and no longer part in this case. Did I need to be subjected to this fishing expedition? No. Could this happen to someone in Europe? No. If you're a tax paying, law abiding citizen nobody is going to harass you with made up stupid reasons and get away with it. 2. I was on an Amtrak train with my wife, when in Buffalo NY we were rudely waken up by border guards armed to the teeth and in bulletproof vests. "State your citizenship, where were you born?" Now if you're born and raised in America, the natural answer is "I refuse to answer that question" But as someone coming from a different country, we couldn't possibly be prepared for this, especially not at 5 AM. Turns out, driver's license is NOT a valid form of identification in front of federal authorities. We were both dragged off the train, driven to their HQ, stuck for hours in cells until they verified that we're not illegal immigrants. Then after threats (next time we don't carry our passports, visas, residence permits, it's gonna be $2000 fine per person per document) they drove us back to the train station. Mind you the university specifically told us NOT to carry those papers , to keep them safe at home because if we loose them or if they get stolen, we're in trouble. One arrogant bitch of a border guard even tried to play clever and told me that she would be expected herself to carry those papers if she went anywhere in Europe. I didn't feel like arguing with her (for obvious reasons) but no. She would not have to carry anything except for her passport and even that only to international airports or some of the borders of non-Schengen countries which still have border control. My cheap, plastic ID card issued by Romania is the only thing I need to travel anywhere from the Eastern borders of Romania to Normandy, from the South of Greece to North Cape in Norway. And unless I break a law, nobody, no conceivable authority (except airport security) is ever going to ask me under any circumstances to show any identification or dare to ask me where I was born. In Buffalo NY I was close to the Canadian border but still well within the USA. So much for your precious freedom of movement. As George Carlin once put it: Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They are privileges.
Formerly, we could not go anywhere without a valid passport. I lived near the border with Germany. I needed my passport all the time to pass the border. In my wallet, I had German and Dutch money to pay for groceries or gasoline. To change Dutch money into German money (or the other way around) was always charged with an administration fee. I am so glad we have the Euro and free movement of people. That does help a lot. I am also glad that I can live in Spain, if I would like that.
As for Schengen, I think that almost all europeans agree that's been a blessing... As for Euro, I'm not sure... For example before Euro here in northern Italy we used to benefit from norther european tourism boosted by your stronger currency; and when I wanted to have a cheap holiday I could drive off 1 hour into slovenia or croatia and pay 0.5€ for a large beer 😢... Now everybody is adopting euro and I must drive 10 hours to Serbia or Romania for cheap weekends... This is just a silly example meaning that one single currency for different economies it could work worse... And reharse political controversies within our countries (as we are seeing with the struggles about inflation control and common debt...) On the other hand the idea of territorial unification and no internal borders within our countries, is something I truely whish we will never go back from...
@@iilcesco Greetings from Croatia, I can tell you that tourism isn't the only industry that had price changes due to euro (thanks to our government that chose to implement it in the absolute worst possible time in history of eurozone ((covid, earthquake in Zagreb, inflation)) we now pay more than double what we payed for basically anything before covid and euro. We feel your pain as well.
@@q1337 here I can say "I told you so" - first thought in my mind I was working in Germany a while ago with many Croatians. When we were speaking about adopting Euro in Croatia, I told them to be prepared for high rise of prices (As we experienced here in Slovakia many years ago). I can speculate how it works, but in general people handle 0.1€ same as 0.1kuna and it is merit of months able to highrise prices. Older people here are saying - huh, it is 600SKK (Slovak crowns) when see 20€ bill, It was those day enough for a week. (rate was 30.126SKK : 1€), but it is not. Real value is at the best only one third (more realistically 1/6) - money just work this way.
@@stanislavbandur7355 while I understand what you want to say, this is not it, the situation is caused my incompetent financial planning on the side of our government. We pay 25% tax yet have the most expensive food (people visiting from France couldn't believe our prices). Relying on an unstable and easily alterable industry such as tourism while quite literally selling or shutting down any other industrial government assets is the reason it all happened. They bet on the wrong sector and lost big time. Now I have to pay 3€ for a tiny espresso at some locations. While wage increases are not important. Phenomenal isn't it. Imagine what could be done if our government actually cared. Our former president claimed we would become "The next Switzerland" xD Yes, we became the next Switzerland in prices only. You said money works this way, it is true, but the root cause is bad management, not the monetary system itself.
We have random DUI (we call it Drink Driving in the UK) but we use the scientific measure of a roadside breathalyser test rather than the "Walk in a Straight line" nonsence. We also have roadside test kits for drugs.
Also the checks in the UK are also quite rare. Random stops at Christmas but for the rest of the year only likely if you crash or are weaving all over the road in front of a police car.
We have same in Finland just breathlyzer test no walking the line bs. Usually these stops are more likely in holiday times or maybe near festivals and stuff like that. Some random testing too but it's pretty rare.
@@johnclements6614over here in BE the strictness differs between council areas, but they always use the police checkpoint system. It means everyone that ends up at the checkpoint Will be checked.
Roadside breathalyzer testing is also done in the US. The federal legal limit is 0.08% (meaning that anything above that level is an automatic DUI); however, a person with a blood alcohol level below the legal limit can still be charged with a DUI if their behavior is impaired (there are many people who are visibly intoxicated at, or below, the 0.08% legal limit). That’s where tandem walking and other physical assessment tests come into play, since these provide observable evidence that a person’s reaction times are impaired and they are unsafe to drive. There are limits on the use of these physical assessments, of course, since there are many illnesses that can affect the results (e.g. a person with multiple sclerosis may have poor balance, rather than being intoxicated), and these circumstances are supposed to be taken into account when a person is being evaluated.
When I was 19 and decided to go to the US for the first time, that's when I learned the concept of a visa. Born in europe, travelling through europe every year, I didn't know this was a thing. And then I realized that we were the different ones, that it's common to have rigid and difficult processes to get into a country. I'm from Spain, close to the border with Portugal, and for me it's normal eating in Spain and then going to Portugal to get a coffe, because there's no border, it's just a 20 minute drive. This is definitely one of the reason why I feel so lucky of being european
There are _Four Freedoms_ in the EU - Free movement of goods - Free movement of capital - Freedom to establish and provide services - Free movement of people
@@francoissimon2362 Healthcare is not a _freedom,_ like the others are but you get it in the EU. And it is only valid for unexpected things like I have an acute tooth ache or I break an arm. I cannot go to the Alps for 6 months to cure my asthma.
@@zootallures6470 who decides what a freedom is ? Do you think it is normal that capital has more freedom than humans ? The so-called economical freedom that is so dear to some people is the prison of those that are being exploited. I don't really expect you to understand this but maybe you can take a second and try to think against yourself, cheers
Free movement of capital is not correct - it depends on the country. For example as a Danish person you can buy a house in Spain without living there, just being a landlord. But it does not work in the other direction. If you are not Danish you are not allowed to own property in Denmark when you do not live in Denmark for more than 6 months a year. I know of many people who wanted to buy a weekend home in DK, but weren't allowed to, because they did not live in DK.
i would also go one step further. its not only about travelling, working, studying. i am 50 years old, german and i remember growing up next to the netherlands border. when i was young, before the border opened, everybody around me and also myself thought, dutch people are the bad guys. with the border opening, you start going there, finding out, they are exactly like us. so now years go by with an open border, i like my dutch neighbors, i like shoping there, i also worked there for a year. i love the freedom of movement, it also decreases prejudices.
The Nordic countries have been a passport free area for their citizens since the 50's, as well as free labor market + lots of other forms of collaboration before EU. Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮 😊
@@KeesBoons the BeNeLux inspired Schengen if I'm not wrong. Anyway there was a lot of traveling between European countries also in the past, just thinking about the Grand Tour. With Schengen the EU countries simply accept that as a natural thing. Maybe one day in the future we will have a global Schengen.
@@nicoladc89 As with all inspirations, who can really tell, but it is quoted as such. I still live under the hope that one day it will be possible for the entire world, but I don't think I'll be around to see it happening.
And Ireland even it is nonshengen country allow me from inside of Shengenzone to go there with only ID and I can get a job only with ID, how great it is?
I've seen interviews of Brits complaining about "discrimination" at the airport, because they had to wait at the long line for non-EU citizens... 😂 Well, that's exactly what they voted for.
this attitude "always THEIR fault" is for me so frustrating. This will lead us somewhere we would not like to be. This makes "WE/THEY" standpoint stronger and stronger and divide us more and more. very sad
It wasn't the coming, it was the taking of benefits and overloading the nhs, implementing their own laws, then never going . Now you wait and see what happens at the weekend in London. We don't want middle eastern problems in our country.
I am only 50 yo and I remember very well when I was young, we didn’t need passport to cross the border from Canada to US. Every summer, we went at the beach (Plattsburgh) and the only thing we brought that MAY be useful IF needed, was our birth certificate, which we NEVER had to pull out at the border… I remember that as teenagers, we were always driving around and oftentimes when we were too bored, we went on road trips for a day and end up driving along Lake Champlain and join other teenagers who were grouping along the shore and share bond fires with them and come back home at night… it was so fun. The last time I went to the beach there was when I graduated from high school in 1990. Still the same. Last time I went in US, I was 20 yo. I went in Manhattan for a weekend visit to my bf’s cousin there… funny/not funny thing is, this last time was also the first time we got stopped for a couple of hours at the border for a big « search » which they said they did « sporadically »… 🙄 Well, in my experience, it never happened before, but coincidentally, it was also the first time I was crosssing the border with a black family too, since I was with my friend, her brother, her sister and her uncle who was the driver. How weird I felt and how speechless I was to really « feel » for the first time how it feels to be treated differently because of the color of the skin. It was still the times where we didn’t need passport to cross the border. I never went back to US after. Too complicated now. Funny how things are getting soooooooo monitored and ruled that I now find it pretty funny when Americans speak about freedom they have… freedom of what tell me? What freedom you guys have more than the rest of the world that we don’t that makes you speak about that famous FREEDOM you are so lucky to have that we don’t 😏 As I see it, there is less freedom than a lot of countries as I see it but I can be mistaken. That’s only my point of view and my experience.
I'm romanian,living in Spain. We don't have any kind of border check,last summer we have been to a festival in Portugal. The only clue you have you crossed the border is a board on the road with,,good bye Spain'' and ,,welcome to Portugal''.Same when we drive to France and further.
@@draculakickyourass I would love to do the same 😏 Unfortunately, the only the thing our two stories have in common is that we also have the same signs except that it looks more like Quebec welcome you, Welcome to Ontario, etc 😅 Still in Canada tho 🙂
Before there was freedom in the rest of the world, there was freedom in America, and it was written into our Constitution. At that time all of Europe was led by monarchs that could behead a wife instead of a divorce, or draw and quarter a political enemy without a trial. America has a 250-year record of defeating monarchs and dictators all over the world. So instead of being derisive of American famous FREEDOM, you should be grateful that America revolted against our King, and we continue fights the good wars in Europe whenever other freedom lovers can't win on their own.
Nigdy nie przypuszczałem, że w USA poszło to w przeciwnym kierunku, niż u nas w EU. Ja pamiętam dokładnie odwrotne sytuacje, kiedy lata temu miałem kontrole graniczne między Polską i Czechami, oraz Polską i Niemcami, co było upokarzające i zajmowało czas. Teraz nie potrzebuję absolutnie nic do przekroczenia granicy wewnątrz chyba całej Europy, i jeszcze dodatkowo kilku krajów poza granicami Europy
Ryan, apparently the freedom to travel between some states is about be curtailed, especially if you are a female of childbearing age, suspected of being pregnant!
America is going through a midlife crisis. Just like European and other countries did a while ago. Well … it’s also known as fascism. It usually starts with taking away freedom from the people. Like banning books …
2:49 sometimes in the Us that even happens in between states. Was on a vacation to the US *once* in my live (never again). Had a driver, because I was the tourist, and we got stopped thrice while driving from NC to CA. Some questions the cops pulling us over (on an interstate, what made it even weirder from a german perspective - you don't pull over on interstates, you guide them out of there first). Questions were like "You're licence plate is from NC, what you're doing in TX?" - "Long way from NC to CA, what's your business here?". Happened back in the mid 90s, but when I listen to american friends living in germany nowadays those things are still happening in the US, espcially when you're moving from AK to any other state. Edit: at 8:06 no, they don't. If british people want to work in the EU they need a work visum (and the other way araound as well'). The Brexiteers were always like "We voted you EU foreigners out", but by now most of them understood they voted themselves out instead.
At least he did one smart thing. An Irish passport gives a person greater freedom of movement within Europe than any other passport. As an Irish citizen, I have the right to freely travel, live and work in both the EU and the UK.
Honestly sometimes I don't even realize how lucky I am (we are). I live in a country, work in the same country, have my whole life in same country. So I could think like "I don't need it - the freedom to move and Schengen area". But then I can go shopping to neighboring country that is like 5 minutes away, I can hop on a train with just a train ticket and my wallet and travel where I want, I can use my currency I know in most of Europe, and if I ever decide to move or purchase home elsewhere I don't have to go through bureaucracy hoops.
From Finland, we do have those "lets stop everyone and check for DUI" kinda checkpoints, but they're getting more and more rare. Mostly done close to festivals or things like that. They were more common like 20y ago, iirc my mother got regularly stopped at one when driving my sisters into hobbies when there was a hockey game around there. Also we have "Right to Roam" on top of freedom of movement in the northern europe. Would be interesting seeing your opinions on that.
Freedom of Movement is actually four separate freedoms: freedom of movement of people, capital, labour and services. It is regulated in the treaty on the functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in article 21. Even some non-EU countries participate fully or in a limited way as well (eg Switzerland ) as well as the EEA (European Economic Area) members. In the Schengen area you don’t even need a passport and there are no permanent border controls between Schengen member states (you need some form of identification with you though). The UK did not want to continue the freedom of movement and therefore now UK citizens require a visa to enterEU countries (which is normally granted on entry).
It is not only about free movement. When I was a young man (60 now), there was a somehow different behaviour and relationship between people from various european countries. In some way we had to work on the history of our ancistors then (esp. when you are german). This has complety changed, positively ... and I enjoy it! Wherever we Europeans will go in Europe, esp. regarding young people, You are welcome as an European.
I am from Italy, born and raised. In high school we did 2 school exchanges, one in France and one in Germany. In university I did an exchange where I lived and studied one semester in Denmark, I had a scholarship so I was paid by the EU to study there. I did my master in Belgium and last year I worked as a teacher in France. Sometimes I don't think about how lucky we are. The only thing I don't think your comparison with travelling between states works, cause every country has its own version of states, and if you travel between states you're still travelling inside your country.
WHAT?!?!!? Did you get paid to be able to study and get trained??!?!!? Man, sometimes I feel we don't belong to the same continent. I've been unemployed the last 16 years and I didn't receive a single cent from welfare, because I'm a white middle-aged male. No money for us at all.
@@BlackHoleSpain I appllied for an Erasmus scholarship and it basically covered my rent and my uni expenses, also university in Denmark is free so that helped a lot. And when I did my master I was able to work while studying to cover my expenses (waitressing and babysitting jobs) but since we're in the EU you can also apply for scholarships and help from the government. I don't know where are you from but sometimes it's just matter of research and keep asking when you deal with bureaucracy. I know tho that things are so different from country to country.
@@manuela8038 My nickname says so. Io sono della Spagna 😄 I left university in 1995, so no scholarships for me back then. Here the socialist government only helps immigrants, moors, blacks, gipsies, women, gays, trans and leftish NGOs... no welfare for the rest of the middle-class population.
@@BlackHoleSpainDepending how far, how long and how much living there live, the Erasmus' program will give you an amount money to live. It adds up to financial support, because those exist to
@@manuela8038 Here in Finland they pay you to study - without a scholarship. I want to comment on the US and states. The laws can be very different, and the police will not have jurisdiction in another state, so it's not like different areas within a civilized European country. It is however comparable to the UK, to a point. The laws differ there as well, and local government has some limited political power of their own. I also believe that it's possible to get a court order that you're not allowed to leave, or visit, a particular state. Don't quote me on that last one though.
Last year i drowe in my car from Denmark and through a lot of different countries in Europe, and never once had to stop at a border crossing. I visited Italy, San Marino, Austria, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Germany.
Couple of years back i was traveling to Belgiun from Netherlands by bus. I ask the driver if i needed my passport with me. He replied YES. So took my passport and hop on the bus. On the road to Belgium i recived a text from a Belgium telecommunication service that said "Well come to Belgium !!!!" only then i relazed that we had crossed the border. Noone stoped us, Noone checked our passport !!!
You do need your passport (or ID card) in Belgium, as a proof of identity. You have to be able to show it whenever required by the police. Though it is the only proof of identity they will ever ask for. But you don't need it to get checked at the border. Imagine visiting this town : ua-cam.com/video/pP4OL2i6t-Q/v-deo.html
From Netherlands Amsterdam 47. There are small political parties here against EU government. I have personally never met anyone anti EU. Especially seeing what happened to UK economy 😢 after Brexit
Small? The biggest party from last elections is in nature anti-EU (pvv). The seccond biggest is less pro-EU then the way it goes (vvd). NSC is not anti EU, it is pro EU to be honest, but still want the sovereignity back to the nations. And the 4the party in power rn is BBB, and they are also pretty anti-EU. So what you say is just spreading misinformation. Probably a EU bot or something…
Another big benefit is that it creates stability across borders, and having a stable country next door leads to a more stable economy and a more prosperous country
freedom of movement, which (gladly) we can participate in here. For me, it meant that i was able to get an Erasmus scholarship and being paid to study abroad (in Germany) to get a higher education at a university. It meant that i was able to work and live in Germany for the time, travel to France, UK (before Brexit), Poland and Estonia. Having a weekend in Vienna, go to Portugal for a week and visit Rome for a few days. Then .. going back home and being much richer of life experiences. While there was paperwork involved in the EU Erasmus scheme, there was no paperwork needed for all the travelling. In fact, i cannot remember being asked to show my ID other than for my very initial journey to Germany (because, we are not members of the EU).
Very simply, for me freedom of movement means that I routinely commute and shop between three/four different countries (but same currency) unrestricted. I'm a Frenchman who lives in Eastern Belgium, a 20-30 minute drive to the borders with both Germany and Luxembourg, and the French border is only an hour-drive away; border and custom checks would be such a pain.
@@jfrancobelge I have a friend who lives in an even crazier location. Southern Netherlands, ten minute drive to both Germany and Belgium, she goes grocery shopping in various countries. She also has a bunch of large airports in 3(four counting France) countries within a very reasonable range, most within one hour. She also studies in Belgium but lives in the Netherlands, so she makes the trip by car when needed, takes 40 minutes.
Here in the UK, predudice led to restriction of movement. Politicians were hell-bent on getting people to vote leave the EU that they were willing to forego this right for British people.
Most British people look down on tyranny, which is why they opposed the Spanish Armada, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and the embryonic United States of Europe.
@@patsyadams1833not rubbish one of the reasons the brexit vote went through was a false NHS add campaign that fooled the country and a desire to close your borders, which isn't working too well for ye is it? 😂😂😂
All part of the Brexit disaster. No freedom of movement for UK people now. Long queues at the borders. No ability to work elsewhere. ...for many of us, a painful loss of our European identity. Remember: the video was made pre-Brexit. Many people did not acknowledge the reality which was to result. 💔
I'm old enough to remember needing a passport when crossing borders in Europe. I even crossed the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall as a teenager in 1987. Also, every country still had their own currency back then. We used guilders in the Netherlands, while our neighbouring countries used marks or franks. It sure is a lot more conventient nowadays to travel through Europe.
Yes, it's much more convenient. Sadly, it's not nearly as safe, and you can't trust random people you come across. I'd take back '90s Europe in a flash if it was possible. Passport control and currency exchanges were not that time consuming, you just had to plan accordingly and not be an imbecile. We didn't even lock the doors yo our houses and cars back in those days. Today, you'd have nothing left if you did that, and your teenage sister would suffer from molestation too. Close the borders, bring back civilization!
I remember badly. In 1987 you could cross the border just with your ID card. You could also travel to Italy, Spain, France and Greece without any passport. I travelled a lot in those countries in the eigthies and never had any passport.
@@LightMovies I don't think minors would have even had an ID card in the Netherlands in 1987. From what I can find, identification obligation was only introduced in the Netherlands in 1994.
Months for a passport? In Spain we go to the police office with one photo and 30€ and they print your passport immediately. The whole process does not take more than 10 minutes…
UK didn't want Freedom of Movement after Brexit, immigration is a big issue there. So people from the UK are only allowed to stay in the EU 90 days per 180 days and can't work without permits. The EU offered more in the negotiations, but the UK only wanted the freedom from the UK into the EU, not the other way around, so they said no to every offered option. Though quite a lot of Brits perceive this as the EU 'punishing' them because they are not aware that it was the UK who decided to break all bonds and during the campaign the people promoting Brexit promised that 'of course' nothing would change for the Brits except becoming richer.
Conservative politicians didnt. But the majority of the public had changed their mind. Our voting system stops the majority having their say in this country as lib dems always split the left wing vote. Now we're poorer too as brexit has contributed to inflation
A heck of a lot of us Brits could never afford to go to Europe anyway. Except if we would tolerate ourselves being shoved on a cattle truck of cheap skate flight to a drunken rowdy beach hotel. No way thank you not my culture. I once worked many years ago in Ischia in the Bay of Naples. First and last time abroad. Not everyone in the UK is affluent enough to put travel over heating and food.
Can I just say that 48% of Britain did NOT want to end freedom of movement. A lot of us were devastated. Not all of the UK were for it, just the half that wanted to ruin it for everyone else.
As an older European, I remember very well the border controls back in the day. The heartbeat of if everything is ok, the hidden money in impossible places in the suitcases, the goods and the souvenirs that we had to declare at the customs. I don't miss it at all. A Europe without borders is a blessing.
My father travelled from France to Poland back in the 60's. Its passport amazes me, it is full of Visas. He went in train, and had to pass thru West Gemany, then East Germany, then Poland, and there are Visas upon Visas upon Visas, noting entering and leaving places and times very cautiously at each post. I know it was the cold war, then, but it's still crazyness seen from here, for he was just a schoolar, visiting other schoolars upon invitation.
this is so ingrained that i never gave it a second thought. during university, there's this program called erasmus, where you go and study in another country as if you're in your home university. during and after that, i would just buy last minute flights and go spend the weekend somewhere. never ever thought about boarders, just get up and go.
The USA got almost paranoid about controlling its borders after 9/11 but, not knowing your age, I'm not going to guess whether you remember much of the 20th century. However I was somewhat stunned when you said it took you months to get a passport. Like, wtf? I got my last Canadian passport inside of a week and through the Finnish consulate in Toronto I got my Finnish passport in three days. Btw, the thugs at the border crossings to Canada and Mexico are on the American side. I had my car ransacked by the border guards on the US side every time I drove from Toronto to visit friends in Rochester or Flint. Eventually I got so pissed off that I stopped making the trips. Still, I really like your videos!
I agree, I've also been at the Canada/US border a couple of times and on the US side cars literally sped past you in other lanes and simply jammed in somewhere between cars instead of waiting for your turn in a civilized manner. Also took a ridiculously long time, the border guards were downright hostile even if we were obviously tourists. I've also has to wait hours in line at US airports to get through the passport and finger print control. I especially remember a gigantic room in Miami that was filled to capacity, extremely hot, and a black guy who worked there, who was extremely loud and obnoxious and kept giving orders on how to behave in line. Imagine paying someone to be a fucking asshole and annoy every single person flying into the country. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I genuinely wanted to go up to him and tell him to shut his fucking mouth. However, we would have been delayed longer than the over two hours it took had I done that. Fucking wannabe cop earning minimum wage to be a rude asshole. I never want to do that again.
It is very simple - if you go to France, you can jump in a rental and visit Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Belgium, etc. without having to tell anybody, without being checked by anybody.
he more than likely doesnt. remember half of the british people didnt realise we had freedom of movement when the idiots and old people voted for brexit
Misleading to be fair The UK always had to go through border control etc Always had to have a passport and notify the destination country So for the vast majority of in and out travel nothing changed However Moving or working away did change It's was the only real down side to leaving for me but one that was I I believe still is worth it Most of the EU felt like the UK stook two fingers up and said your not good enough anymore In reality we just wanted different things so decided to go our own way
Brexit!!! Just over half of our idiotic UK citizens thought it would be a good idea to get rid of all these great freedoms and benefits of being in the EU and now we're stuffed. Still makes me angry. Talk about turkeys voting for Christmas!
As an EU citizen, I was appalled during a short work experience in America. So many people in America live lives of servitude because of 'benefits'. In America, part of a person's wage is deducted by the employer, and this deduction, together with a contribution from the employer, pays for the individual's health insurance. However, if you lose your job, you lose your benefits. The result was that many individuals were locked into situations anchored to a spouse or a partner they hated because of the benefits situation.
We are from Germany. In 2019 we traveled to Cornwall in England. To drive to the ferry in Calais to Dover we went through the Netherlands, Belgium and France. There are no borders, no checks. The only time we had to show our passport is to go on the ferry , same way back. We are so used to got to different countries and not even have any problems to cross any border.
Romanian here. Romania is part of European Union, we can travel , work, study everywhere in European countries without any restrictions. It takes 15 min to filled the papers for a passport and you will receive it by mail at home in 10 days.
The EU citizens also enjoys the means to experience that freedom of movement : roaming in Europe for mobile phones and social security in any EU member State. If you need health care in any member State, you just go for it just as in your home country (you don't pay or you get refunded). So you do not need to pay for a private health insurance (that "detail" makes a huge difference for many UK old people in Southern Europe after Brexit)
It needs to be pointed out that not all EU countries are in Schengen. Movement is restricted, borders function in a normal manner with passport control.
I lived in Trieste (an italian city at the border with Slovenia) for almost 10 years. The gas and groceries prices were convenient in Slovenia so going there 2-3 times every week to shop was a very normal thing for me. It has always been a normal 10 minutes drive, the only exception was seeing the sign SLOVENIA/ITALY at the border.
Well... In principle you have this freedom too. As you mentioned, this free movement is, in principle, like the movement between your states. So you can compare, in some aspects, the EU to the USA and the countries inside the EU with the states in US. To countries outside the Schengen-Area, you too have passport control, even when they are inside EU.
The vid was about movement between countries, not oarts of a country. That is a huge difference. Also, we don't need a passport to travel to extra-Schengen countries. ID is sufficient and unless you pose a risk to public safety, you cannot legally be denied entry. Whereas outside of the EU any country has right to deny you entry without needing any justification.
@@MichalMatiyou maybe misunderstood my point. The "problem" is that the relations inside the EU are kind of a hybrid between the States inside the USA itself (in case of trade and traveling, where agreements like Schengen are in place) on the one side and between USA and Canada (in case where no agreements are in place). And comparing the travel situation inside the EU with the situation between Canada and the USA is just invalid, as the EU is more comparable with the States of the USA itself.
@@stephan5279 The only differentiator between US-CAN and intra-EU relationship is the existence of the international treaties (TEU + TFEU) that remove trade and mobility friction. Before the existence of EU the situation had been comparable to US-CAN model. Different legal and regulatory frameworks per country, borders, tariffs, work authorization requirements etc.
I think the same. The EU has roughly the same size as the USA and the Countries the size of the states. There is the USA rather more advanced than the EU. Although, on the other hand, the EU is much more diverse.
The freedom of movement in Europe is a benefit of the European Union. The British got peeved and left so they gave up their freedom of movement with it. There's no cherry picking to keep certain rights but end commitments they didn't like. For example, many of them had to move back to Little Britain because they no longer had the right to live in a European country without special permits. A lot of them were living abroad and wanted their homeland to get rid of all the pesky migrants, so they voted for Brexit. It took them by surprise they were no longer welcome in Europe, either. They considered themselves "expacts" but in fact they were migrants just like the ones whose lives they scewed up. Never underestimage the stupidity of haters!
Freedom for Britons? Having a border to be able to keep criminals out of a country stupid enough not to require ID - unlike most of the EU - had a lot to do with it. Criminal gangs loved being in the UK, very lax policing and no ID? Paradise.
@@alan- We have a great big ocean for that. What most people were sick of was Germany trying to dictate. I didn't want Brexit, but understand why it was done. Angela Merkel was trying to crush the UK into submission, yet every other EU country didn't have to follow HER rules
It is really nice that we have that. I'm from Spain and I'm currently studying in Italy thanks to that, you have the opportunity to learn another culture, another language, know a lot of people and all that.
Do you really not know about the problems the UK encountered after Brexit? One of the first things happening: Lots of lorry drivers had come from eastern Europa - and had to go "home". There were not enough lorry drivers left in the UK to transport all goods which resulted in some empty shelves in the stores.
@@Hoenniak In Poland we were, because a lot of our guys ("plumbers", lorry drivers, electricians, etc.) went back home in years of Brexit (like over a milion).
@@Hoenniak Don't "you" me when talking about the UK. I am German & Swiss, living in Switzerland. The problems UK was facing after Brexit were all over the "mainstream" media.
Ryan, you need to check for information about the Erasmus university exchange program that is so popular in Europe and also see the movie "The Spanish Apartment" which was about students from 7 or 8 different countries sharing an apartment in Barcelona. And the UK flushed all of this down the toilet with Brexit.
We had university exchanges before the UK even joined the EEC in 1973. The EU have chosen to flush this down the toilet only because of Brexit. The problem is that most people are now too young to remember a time before the UK joined and think that the freedoms we enjoyed were invented by the EU. They were not. What the EU did was turn these freedoms granted by nation states as permissions into rights applied to citizens in order to reduce the powers of the nation state. That's a totally different thing. Now that the UK has left the EU, the EU is acting as a (federated) nation state itself and withdrawn these co-operative arrangements in order to punish British citizens and encourage a UK movement to rejoin the EU. The UK should resist tyranny in all its forms.
@@davemac1197Perhaps you should turn to your own politicians who couldn't seem to get their act together and make proper post Brexit agreements. At some point the EU simply had enough of it. I really wonder what tyranny you're referring to. You sound like a salty Brit who got exactly what he wanted and now can't handle the consequences. The reality is that the UK always had one foot out the door. The UK never fully ratified Schengen nor did it adopt the euro. Brits always point out how they're not even part of the continent (which technically couldn't be farther from the truth but ok). Now you got what you wished for. Transport of both people and goods has become a lot more cumbersome. You're acting as a 100% independent island nation and now you have to deal with the consequences. I'm only sorry for the Brits who voted no.
@@moladiver6817 - you're absolutely right about our own politicians, they are almost all universally incompetent - perhaps the result of not having to run their own country for more than aa generation. For the record, I did not get what I voted for, I did not vote to negotiate a new EU treaty and think we should have left on WTO Article 24 terms, and I did not vote to leave a part of the UK (Nothern Ireland) behind in the EU single market and customs union. The NI Protocol of the Brexit Agreement actually undermines the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and not preserve it as claimed. The EU's intent is clearly to cleave NI from the UK by economic means (it is already more expensive and problematic for NI to import goods from the rest of UK's internl market, which is ridiculous) and to aid and abet Irish unification against the wishes of the majority in NI. That's what I call tyranny. It's the opposite of freedom to trade with who you wish without punitive tariffs and regulations, unless you agree to surrender your political independence. The EU is a Fourth Reich and is acting disgracefully.
@@davemac1197 LOL .. " against the wishes of the majority in NI ".... like you care what NI wants ... they VOTED TO STAY IN EU, hypocryte .... They VOTED FOR freedom of movement with their brothers in Ireland ... now you are just afraid they will remember you are OCCUPIERS there . and you do not have the big guns to point to their heads to "convince " them like you did until now.
@@davemac1197 Ha ha ha, there are still some believers of the British farce! Meanwhile, the Erasmus generation is rising to positions of power throughout the EU and their pan-European identity is beginning to erase the ridiculous national obsessions of the old order.
Unfortunately, the UK threw these freedoms away when they voted to leave the EU. I'd like to add that it was a minority who voted for that and the sensible majority wanted to remain.
Brexiteers had in their mind that they could keep their own freedom of movement while restricting migrants coming in. It did not work that way for them and now they can't move freely anymore and are missing tons of migrant workers exspacially in seasonal work like agriculture.
We had migrant workers on farms in the UK before we even joined the EEC in 1973 - so you have to ask yourself what's really going on politically and not simply blame Brexit as if the EU had existed forever and the UK had done something unusual by deciding to be a free country.
@@Attirbful - I'm not a UK farmer familiar with the technical problems, but my understanding is that the EU are not making is easy for them to hire EU workers now. EU were only happy if they had absorbed the UK, but doesn't want to be a good neighbour. We wanted to negotiate an amicable divorce, but the EU have been the abusive partner in the relationship - not really a relationship, more like corporate takeover. It just underlines the point that the uk made the right decision to leave.
@@Attirbful - our government failed to make the bed we actually voted for, so we still have the problems of a form of associate membership that wasn't even on the referendum ballot paper, instead of being truly free of the EU. If only that were the case. Your attitude only reinforces the notion that we made the right decision in the vote.
I'd say the original vid is clearly "Anglocentric" in its views, cultural and political, and language and many of those arguments for freedom of movement, and why most Europeans value it, were not really "European" but more UK( and American/ Australian) specific. Like diversity as is mostly understood on the continent doesnt automatically mean strength and positive virtue nor its mere diversity of cuisines and fast food( gonna have Chinese or Mexican tonight) or of skin colours but its the European- style diversity- one is expected to assimilate and its about meeting Spanairds, Germans, Irish, Poles, Greeks etc- all of them would be grouped under single one boring and monolithical white/ Europeans in most of native English speaking world. Similarly to how many Europeans dont put as much importance to the plethora of options when it comes to fast food from all over the world and are used to and like to eat mostly local food and cuisines( Czechs eat mostly home cooked Czech food, Germans most of time eat home cooked German meals, French mostly French ones etc unlike e.g. UK where its most common food is quasi Indian based or US where daily takeouts, like Mexican or Italian or Thai etc, are becoming norm...) we like diversity but not at all costs- most of Central and Eastern Europe is horrified when they watch whats happening in West- like now when mobs of often clearly non European looking ppl vandalising whole city protesting something thats happening on other side of world( be it Palestine or America) Most of Europe doesnt want such diversity, we are more than fine with ppl who are accepting our norms, laws and traditions- like Ukrainian refugees, but not if the cost of diversity is safety and loss of ones country and demeaning of our own native culture- as we see it in the East whats happening in West is no different from whats been done to Natives in America- like Mexico wasnt always Spanish...
Of course there are some people who always resent foreigners. Since Brexit, and losing their right to freedom of movement, the Brexiteers have been screaming about needing a passport to enter the EU.
Before 1985/1986 you were checked every time you crossed the border. (at least the ID papers). Within Western Europe it was already easier to travel with an ID card and you didn't need a visa. There are also some countries bordering the Mediterranean (for example Turkey) where you can enter with your German identity card. At that time, if you wanted to travel to the East (East Germany, Hungary, Poland, etc.) you needed a passport, a visa and sometimes a reason for your stay. And the border controls were particularly intensive when leaving the country.
I am Romanian and I live in Germany since 2015. On Friday I got a call from a work agent and on Monday I was in Germany. I was able to travel only with my Romanian ID card. In one week, I had all the registration papers done and also the medical insurance contract. I started working the day I arrived here. I don't need any permit or anything. In the future I want to move to Spain and all I have to do is to deregister from German government institutions/bank/medical insurance and I am good to go.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 please educate yourself. EU zone and Schengen zone are different. Romania is part of EU therefore we can travel with ID card. Schengen zone means: free borders aka no border control. Romania has border control because it has border with Turkey through the sea and drug traffic on sea is very common.
@@alexia2189 What makes you think I don't know that? Absurd guesswork. I thought you were talking about a local ID card. My bad on that, as you were talking about the official document which is valid in the EU, Schengen and a few select microstates. Romania has other border control points too. Also, that's the Romanian EEC, it's not referred to as a border. Borders are in practice on land.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 Romania has border on water as well :))) yeah, Romania does have other borders as well, but the main problem is the water one. Because it is a point were illegal immigrants are passing through quite often. Fights with border police on water are often.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 I don't know what local ID are you talking about. The only ID that is recognized abroad is the official one. I never heard about a local ID.
I'm guessing the interview was in Britain. This would not be possible now because of Brexit. Good going, you got what you wanted, Brits thought they were so important.
I was stopped once in the 90's for DUI check in Greece. I just popped my head out of the window and blew into the breathalyzer. Thankfully I had forgotten my wallet and I hadn't drank anything. I was also scared because the driver's license was in my wallet . The told me to be sure that I wear my seat belt and I left.
Same in France, DUI stops are just blowing in the breathanalizer, they don't even ask for licence. Unless your car is all beaten up or you act suspiciously (mostly, refusing the test).
The ability to be the Law Maker, issues with increased costs and problems with illegal immigrantion, ( not immigration generally, a wide, diverse group who enrich the UK) but NHS tourist and Welfare spoungers are some of the isdues that Brexit raised and was fought on.
Or gained. Freedom of movement included criminal gangs, well known in Europe and driven out, to the UK that lacks photo ID and an unarmed police force.
Schengen countries can have ID checks if they feel that it is necessary. We've even had that within the Nordics. It's just that Britons now require special permission if they want to collaborate with non-British people and vice versa. We save a lot of money, because Britain was a net receiver and instead of receiving, they are now paying because they no longer get the friends & family discounts. If the British people had been better informed before the referendum, I think they would've voted differently.
@@jeschinstad This is some BS you have not saved anything, subtract that net contribution from £100 billion per year from that. Most people i the UK (around 70%) now wants to rejoin and now it'll cost more. www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/cost-brexit-0
@@HankD13 Almost none of our criminals have a European origin, 95% comes directly from the Middle East and Africa. Do you know that the UK after Brexit actually increased the number of migrants from none European countries? (and no, sorry not from America or Australia) Sweden leaving the EU would not help one bit. And we contribute more to the EU per capita than you ever did. This is just the way to f-up ones economy. EU will shut the borders because its people is not ok with migrants from these places any more. The UK leaving was really enjoying, because we could have used your voices for this change.
Yeah just this summer I drove from Estonia to Poland through Latvia and Lithuania without having to stop at any borders or passport checks. I don't even have a passport
In Denmark you can actually put the word "fuck" in the frontpage of a Danish newspaper and no one gives a crap, don´t know if that counts as a type of freedom. I was never forbidden from swearing at home, I wasn´t however allowed to play violent games or watch any type of violent movies until I turned 15.
It used to be a tiny bit of a hassle, you'd have to get a stamp in the passport and in some cases get a visa. Nothing close to when I went to the US though, I had to have a medical exam including the doctor putting his finger up my ass. That was in the 80ies and it's much more relaxed now, we still need a passport but seldom a visa, and no medical exams. I think we still need a visa for going to eg China or USA, but it's a much simpler process getting one
11:50 The current UK government is strictly against it, one of the reasons for Brexit. The original video must be because of that because it's all Brits giving their opinions here.
In Schengen we don't really have borders. One time I accidentally drove to another coutry and didn't realize it, until I noticed the street signs looked slightly different. The problem is, that criminals make use of this concept. The live in one country near the border, drive to another country to rob a bank and take the money home. The police can't cross the border and arrest people in another country that easily. The police departments from two countries have to work together in such cases, and this takes time.
@@KeesBoons Yes, ... and France, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland and so on. And there is also Europol. This cooperation was already taken into account in the Schengen Agreement in the 1990s. And since then we've got experience and routine with it. I do think this point is often being a little overdramatised. (And maybe mostly through landlocked people, not by people living near the borders (like me) ;-) ) I am quite sure In the past it was easier for the criminals to go into hiding. They just crossed the green border and they were gone. That's not so easy today because the police works way better together. In my region some criminal gangs have been caught in this way (e.g. ATM blasters) - they felt too safe in the neighbouring country. They probably thought the borders would protect them from police persecution... they thought wrong. Europe has already grown together quite a bit and it shows results. - what a great thing. So let's keep up the good work.
Do remember that that video was recorded before brexit. Since Brexit, the UK is no longer a member of the EU and there are no new treaties allowing for freedom of movement between the UK and Europe. There is freedom of movement between all the EU countries, however. So you can go from Denmark to Italy without having to stop at customs.
Even in Africa people have been questioning why we need visas to move between each other and some countries have begun making steps towards free movement between countries
2:25 The EU is almost like States in the US. That's an analogy I have heard before, and it's not that far off. Obviously there are differences, among other things since the EU consists of countries with vastly different cultures, hostories, and languages who banded together over the past 50 years, while the US was built from the ground up as a union hundreds of years ago. But as an introduction to one when you know about the other, it's not a bad starting point.
The EU is actually nothing like the US. It's an international organisation which only has as many rights as the member states allow it to have. The EU has no way of actually enforcing its laws should a country decide not to follow them. It can do stuff like withholding funds or suspending policies, but that's no different than a country withdrawing from an international treaty. A country can just decide to leave the EU and there's nothing the rest of the EU can do to stop it from doing so, other than arguing it would be bad for them. The US states have some say in the federal law, as constitutional amendments need to be ratified by a certain number of states to pass - but if, say, Texas was the only state not to ratify an amendment it would still pass - and if it decided not to follow said law, the federal government would have the right to enforce it anyway. They would have no legal way of ceceding. This is not just a subtlety or a nuance, this is a fundamental difference that makes the US and EU fundamentally different entities. The US is a federate state like Germany or India, it's not an international organisation.
@@igorbednarski8048 "Obviously there are differences [...], but as an introduction to one when you know the other, it's not a bad starting point." Apparently you missed this part. Yes, the federal US government has more power than the central EU government. That doesn't make me wrong.
The EU is the biggest open market in the world and all 27 EU members profit from that. People, goods and services can move freely within the EU. Since the first EU started in 1957, not a single gunshot against a person from another country was fired in the ever growing organisation. Most other European countries want to join the EU. Since the Brexit, the UK no longer profits from all the EU benefits and people can no longer travel to EU countries without customs checks and vice versa. It is more difficult and more expensive to export to the EU for British business and vice versa. The UK has lost 4% of its economy since Brexit and has failed so far to replace the very profitable old situation with new business deals elsewhere in the world. The US was not interested in a different deal with the UK.
Yesterday's video on healthcare was six years old. This one is seven. There's something of extreme relevance happening in the world *right now* impacting European Freedom ... speech, assembly, protest. It involves a country that begins with the letter "I" and what it's doing to the state that begins with the letter "G." (If I type their names YT removes my comment.). Perhaps you'll consider covering this topic.
In the UK and EU you have right to cross a farmers fields as long as you do not interfere with his crops/animals, unlike the US where you are liable to get shot
DUI-checks in Germany are very common. They can just stop you and check anything safety-related. And we don't have an issue with that. They check how old your tires are, if you have a first-aid-kit (non-expired!), if you're high or drunk, if you have insurance. Then you go your marry way - or get busted for driving unsafely. I'm grateful for that, it makes being on and around the streets safer.
As an Irish citizen, I have greater rights to freedom of movement within Europe than citizens of any other European countries. I do need a passport to go to mainland Europe but there are no restrictions on entry. It's basically the same process as returning from a non-EU country; just a quick check in the EU passport holder's line. Once there, I have the exact same rights to freedom of movement as any other EU citizen and I have the same rights to live and work in any EU country. On top of that, I also have the right to travel to the UK too, and I have the right to live and work there as well. I basically have the same rights as both an EU citizen and a British citizen combined.
The EU is built at core on the "four freedoms" Freedom of movement of: * People * Capital * Goods * Services It is not perfect, but a work in progress. And yes, could lead to a future United States of Europe.
It's more likely to not exist within 5-10 years. Several countries are looking to leave for their own reasons, not all the same as the UK's but similar, Italy, Poland, Spain, Greece all moving towards 'Brexit' style votes and even France is mulling it over but that is less likely, given that they are one of the two ruling nations of the EU.
@@Thurgosh_OG I certainly hope not, and I will do everything I can to help it survive. At core, the European Union is a peace project, and stronger than you imagine. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster for the UK, and we are looking to re-establish closer ties.
My husband and I are teachers in Spain. And before every summer we choose which country we would like to go to and teach summer school. We really like ireland and switzerland. So we just apply to summer school programs that are hiring. And the entire family moves in for the summer. We are 3 people, mum, dad and baby Cedric.
What the UK did with Brexit is like Texas not being part of the US anymore, so for texans to travel abroad, they would need to be checked at the border. And for export of goods the goods would need to be checked and the right paperwork would be needed to cross the border. They would not only loose fredom of movement of people, but also of goods. And trading would mean extra taxes, for instance import taxes and all that goes with it. In short, the UK basically isolated itself from the continent and many barriers that weren’t there before Brexit now hinder trade and people.
Sorry but as a Brit we were always checked at the borders as we are in island nation. We get more business from Europe now than we ever did thanks lol We can now trade with who we want.
@@grahambeadle9067Wrong! I lived in the EU (as a Brit) for a few years and the only time my passport was checked was when traveling to Switzerland. I traveled to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Austria without once being checked. It was only when I traveled to Britain (before Brexit) that I needed a passport to cross the 'border'!
Nigel Farage was the loudest voice for the U.K. leaving the E.U.,but made sure his children had dual nationality so they could travel and work in Europe. Hypocrisy at best, duplicity in my view. mind you, he was by far from being the only one, most rich people did the same. I've seen yt posts of americans despairing of their fellow countrymen, well you ain't alone.
My daughter (7 years old, German) was with us in Netherlands, Denmark, Beglium, Austria, France and Italy. She never experienced a border control. For her, another country is only marked by a sign.
The biggest barriers in the EU is language and culture
@filipbitala2624 that's not a barrier, but a challenge. New knowledge is good for keeping the brain working!
@@filipbitala2624 my father in law is Dutch, my grandfather migrated to France. I speak German, English, Netherlands, French and a little bit Spanish. German and English fluently.
The cultural differences are a main reason for travelling around.
@@silviamunoz6863 tell that to your 60 yo grandpa
@@filipbitala2624 my dear, I'm 66, and this semester, I'm finishing my bachelor in Classical Languages.
The fact that we have the right to be treated as any citizen of any other country of the EU can also be reflected outside the EU itself. For example if I'm abroad and something happens, even if there's no embassy or consulate of my own country, I've the right to be assisted by diplomats of other EU members
That is great. Never knew that!
@@pfffetc6149 For example, if you are from France and find yourself in a country without a French Embassy, and you experience an unfortunate incident like losing your passport, you may seek assistance from the German Embassy. At the German Embassy, you have the right to a French-German translator. After explaining your situation, the German Embassy will contact the relevant services to help facilitate your return to France.
@@SmoczeKalosze
Thank you very much.
@@SmoczeKaloszeYa'll are our family after all. So we help you if needed and you help us.
*Sigh* this populist far right wing wave we are looking at with basically nazism and calls to exit the EU is so sad. Im ashamed of our election results.
@@OurFamily- Hungary , Slovakia?
I come from the smallest country in the EU. We are an island nation in the meditteranean just off the coast of Sicily, of 17 miles in length by 9 miles in width. Joining the EU in 2004 and finally being able to move freely to other EU countries has been the biggest blessing. I spent half my life trapped on the little rock in the middle of the sea, only able to leave on very expensive flights to go on holiday as a tourist and never able to wonder off and experience real life. I can't ever imagine a life without free movement.
Malta right?
Your little rock is beautyful
Before freedom of movement you had to apply for visa, sometimes it cost some money, sometimes not(maybe).
Now you don't have to pay or ask anyone?
This applies to any person 18 years or older on the day of arrival and staying at any type of accommodation. The charge is 0.50 Euros per person per night up to a maximum charge of 5 Euros per person. This charge applies to each continuous stay in the Maltese Islands and is charged by each hotel stayed in.
The air travel tax is imposed on flights departing from German airports. The amount depends on the distance to the destination country and is between €7.46 and €41.97 per passenger. The tax has to be paid by the respective airline.
These taxes seem to exist in lot of EU countries
The smallest country in the EU is SanMarino.
you said that you never left the US... you really should. Travelling abroad puts so much into perspective. You learn to appreciate what is done well at home but you also realise where there's still huge room for improvement.
Maybe it's hard for him with their 45h+ weekly work shredule, no paid leave and awfull salary.
But not to Columbia or any other typical American destination in Latin or South America, but to Europe. I knew a couple from New Mexico. They became speechless when they visited Vienna in Austria. The most frequently repeated phrase in their mouths was "how it is possible", "how it is possible."
I understand him if he doesn't want to visit Mexico or Canada. I lived in the USofA for work and visited both countries while living in the USofA. Border control is insane and takes hours especially on the way back from those countries. Crossing the border from Tijuana to San Diego was a nightmare. You won't believe the amount of armed people standing there and reacting very aggressively. No friendly border officer....
Pretty sure average american doesnt have money to travel anywhere further than the state next to their current one.
it's one thing to see it in a video, but it's a whole other experience living it
As a European born after the Schengen agreements, it's insane how I can't imagine living in a Europe with borders. It'd be so weird for us to get a passport to go to Spain, Italy or Germany. We just have this comfort and it's normal, it's expected and we're even entitled to it.
I never want to go back on this.
Denmark is stubborn enough to keep renewing permission to have border control... First because Syrian refugees managed to walk through Europe, now because Swedish gangs keep shooting at eachother...
But the good thing is that it's just a quick formality today.
I'm old enough to remember when Germany had just been reunited.
Going to CZ to PL and back to CZ was a chore... because they didn't automatically trust the 4 Danish passports we had in my family.
The Danish/German border wasn't too bad, we kinda know eachother. Quick look and they send you on.
But the line from Germany to the Czech Republic took a while... and going between CZ and Poland took a while, despite there was no queue... they were just not used to see Danish passports I guess.
Anyway... Schengen has indeed made travelling easier... if I book a flight to Spain with a connection in Amsterdam, I only need passport when I enter the security zone of the first airport. After that I'm approved across EU.
You are lucky because of the f__ing politicians from Nederland and Austria I'm considered a second-hand European citizen. My country has been meeting all the conditions to enter the Schengen area for years. But votes are more important than my country rights and mine.
@@BenjaminVestergaardnow you know what it means to be Romanian and need to wait hours to pass the border. In August I wait 3-4 hours in the car at the border to enter my country or to leave. F__ Nederland and Austria.
@@dmax4838 as I said, I'm old enough to remember Europe with borders, where there weren't even common recognition of passports.
But I can feel your frustration, and yes, Romania has been caught in "Schengen limbo" for too long.
I haven't followed the case in detail, so I don't know who's been blocking what. It is a shame that a few members can block opening the inner borders by simply not trusting that a country can handle the outer borders... but the EU has a common organisation to handle those, think it's called frontex.
And now that RO has been a well behaving member for so long, it doesn't make sense to not allow Schengen membership. Even non-EU countries, like Switzerland and Norway, gotten included in the meantime...
I know there's a problem with less fortunate Romanians going to other EU countries to beg... but denying Schengen inclusion doesn't stop that anyway.
@@BenjaminVestergaard Romania has over 2000 km of borders that we guard and supervise, but half are with EU and NATO countries. If we eliminate controls at the borders with EU countries, we can move border guards to the other borders with non-EU countries and we would substantially increase security. Bulgaria is in the same situation. Move people from the border with Bulgaria and Hungary to the border with Serbia, Ukraine and Moldova. Bulgaria moves from our border to the border with Turkey and those from the border with Greece to the border with Serbia. Likewise, Hungary can move from the border with Romania to the borders with Ukraine and Serbia.
My daughter went to pre shool in Austria, then high school and matric in France, then university in England. This automatically gave her the advantage of speaking three main languages at mother tongue level: English, German and French. Next, she had a huge advantage applying for a job being fluent in three languages, knowing the cultures, and last but not least, she has a different perspective in a global sense, which was huge when she applied for jobs. She is in finance now, had the courage to turn down an offer from Goldman Sachs, as she prefered to work for a European company, even for a little less money but more free life. All this came from the ability to move freely within the EU. So this is education and prosperity. Then there is peace and understanding: I was talking to my French boy friend today about the Israel-Palestine war, and how this catastrophe is going on for 80 or so years. Now 80 years ago our countries were in a bloody war, France and Austria were enemies and its men killing each other. One of my grandfathers was in France during the war as a soldier. Today we cannot even imagine this hatred and war. We move freely between our countries, speak each other languages, enjoy the richness of our cultures, and our grandfathers killing war is like another planet. Imagine, if the same had happened between Israel and Palestine, what paradise this would be. You come at a crossroad and have to choose which way to go: is it hatred, war and oppression, or peace, understanding and prosperity?
So Very True....!!
Something similar happened to me. Swedish, Finnish and English. I also speak the now immensely popular and useful language called Russian, haha!
Yes. I love how they decided to move forward after WWII and I also appreciate how the countries help each other. If their would be a medical emergency in Germany and a Dutch helicopter would be closer by that one could/ would for instance go. Or if it’s a big emergency and there’s not enough staff the other countries can help. And I feel like because you’re benefiting each other you’re also very unlikely to cause trouble. But in general it’s nice to get along with your neighbors so you can help each other out. In Corona time there weren’t enough beds in the Dutch ICU’s, but then Germany had space, so they took some. But just in general, in every day life, to be able to hop over the border and to be able to get stuff from your neighbors is nice. And then if one country has a national holiday or shops are closed on Sunday, you just to got your neighbor.
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Schengen area, means I can drive from where I live in Lithuania all over to Spain without any border checks or anyone asking for a pasport. I can also enroll in a University or get a job in that country as if I was in my country.
So in your case it's probably like going to a different state, only we do that with countries
Isn't your Lithuania a state covering several countries for example Samogitia and Sudavia?
My Poland is a state covering many countries like eg. Mazovia, Silesia, Pommerania, Kuyavia etc. etc.
It's exactly like moving state in the US.
Even in the US if you move state you need to register in the new state for tax purposes.
The only real difference would be when moving country in the EU you get a new tax number for that country if you want to work. In the US you just use the same social security number.
That's the only difference I can think of.
Ohh and pensions, we don't have EU wide pensions so if you have a private pension in the EU you'd need to move it to you new country if you want to keep paying into it.
@@RazorMouth What an absurd comment.
Comparing states of one country with different countries is ridiculous.
Someone who moves from one province to another in France, or from one lander to othe rin Germany also use the same social security number BECAUSE THEY ARE WITHIN THE SAME COUNTRY.
Perfect for weapon smugglers and criminals, as clearly seen in the latest "developments" in europe...
@@ializargThe EU is Not a country, and also Not Europ.
Its a Exonimical Union off 27 COUNTRYS in Europ.
This must have been made before the UK Brexit vote. Unfortunately, my compatriots voted to leave the EU. Now we have all the hassle when travelling to the continent and young people are denied the opportunities they once had. I think people are beginning to realise it was a mistake to leave.
Yup the UK should have stayed with Europe period.
United we stand and Divided we fall and right now the UK is falling unfortunately.
Stay strong over there and greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱
Young and old. We cant retire in a cheap country anymore. Life is a lot more expensive now
That's funny you say because I travel around Europe alot from the UK and I have 0 problem going to any country what so ever...
@@DidierWierdsma6335 Incorrect.
@@cartmanbraahnd6660 First, you already now need a passport and normally have boarder controls. So you cannot just go somewhere freely. Plus, I guess you are aware that from January on you will need to apply for a visa if you wanna enter the EU from the UK!?
Many images come from UK. This country has decided to leave the European Union and is considered a third country whose inhabitants no longer have freedom of movement within the European Union and are granted visas of 3 to 6 months maximum. On the other hand, customs formalities weigh heavily on the transport of goods from the UK.As a member of the European Union UK was like all the countries of the Union a lawmaker, now a lawtaker.
@Klaatu-gI7jg
“lawmaker, now a lawtaker”
Not because of the vote to leave but because of a political system that was shocked by, refused to accept, and was determined not to implement the vote but BRINA
Fact...@@jaywalker1233
@@jaywalker1233 Thanks J. You saved me some time writing a similar comment. It's nearly eight years ago FGS.
Interestingly enough, UK was against "freedoms" that 3rd countries had, and wanted the EU to be much stricter. Which EU became, but UK still decided to leave. Now that UK is a 3rd country (they could have been 2nd, but wasted the possibility), they are shocked by how badly they are treated. They thought they would stop freedom of movement to UK, but not their own. They thought UK was too important to not be treated like they used to (aka, they would keep of the privileges of being an EU-member, without having to treat other EU-members the same). Now a lot of UK citizens think that they are being punished by EU, when they are just treated like they wanted 3rd countries to be treated. 🤷♀
It's quite entertaining to watch videos on UK after Brexit.
@@MagdalenaBozyk
See previous comment explaining that what happened, and what hasn’t happened, is not because of the vote to leave but *because of a political system* that was shocked by, refused to accept, and was determined not to implement the vote, but Brexit In Name Only
You've really grown a lot in your understanding of the world, Ryan, and it is beautiful to see. Your instincts on what a good world would look like are also spot-on. There are wealthy interests against letting such a world come to be, but if enough people work together, I am optimistic enough that we _can_ make it happen, one day.
Brexit was horrible for a lot of people and still is. As for the Schengen borders, a lot of people are at least skeptical. In Norway, for instance, we have a lot of "hit and run" crime, where they enter the country in the afternoon, break into shops at night and leave the country in the morning. But the solution is not necessarily to close the borders, but to improve collaboration between police forces.
brexit was mostly horrible for the eu since you lost your second largest contributor and now you have to go into debt to cover the giant hole the uk left in the eu
@@husker9263 In these stories it is mostly Romanians or other EU countries that are located east of Germany. We (German here) have these stories as well and the idea that this can be fixed by keeping these pesky easterners out sells reaaaalllly good in certain political parties.
@@test-201: What exactly is it that you bring to the table? As a Norwegian, I love the British, but to be honest, I don't know what I've lost from your refusal to do business with us. London is out of the game, but what's wrong with Paris?
@@jeschinstad your country has a population of 5 million you're a liability to do business with the only reason you can do business is because your neighbours are much bigger and stronger
Never heard of this. Maybe it's cause my home country Finland doesn't have that many easily accessible borders (only feasible fast route in is a ship from Tallinn)
Well, let me give you two more - having lived in the USA for three years myself.
1. The right to not be sued and made to go to court again and again for some stupid frivolous reason or because a lawyer thinks that they can get some money from you.
In my first month i was driving when I noticed a guy on a bike crossing the street in front of me, on a bicycle crossing path. Naturally I stopped, I wasn't going to hit him. Unfortunately the young girl driving on the right lane didn't and hit him. A few months later I found out that I am being sued because "by stopping I assumed responsibility for the guy". I had to give a sworn deposition, I was questioned endlessly by the guy's lawyer. When they saw that I'm not an idiot, I don't contradict myself and they can't make me loose my calm, they told me that I'm excused and no longer part in this case.
Did I need to be subjected to this fishing expedition? No. Could this happen to someone in Europe? No.
If you're a tax paying, law abiding citizen nobody is going to harass you with made up stupid reasons and get away with it.
2. I was on an Amtrak train with my wife, when in Buffalo NY we were rudely waken up by border guards armed to the teeth and in bulletproof vests.
"State your citizenship, where were you born?"
Now if you're born and raised in America, the natural answer is "I refuse to answer that question"
But as someone coming from a different country, we couldn't possibly be prepared for this, especially not at 5 AM.
Turns out, driver's license is NOT a valid form of identification in front of federal authorities.
We were both dragged off the train, driven to their HQ, stuck for hours in cells until they verified that we're not illegal immigrants. Then after threats (next time we don't carry our passports, visas, residence permits, it's gonna be $2000 fine per person per document) they drove us back to the train station.
Mind you the university specifically told us NOT to carry those papers , to keep them safe at home because if we loose them or if they get stolen, we're in trouble.
One arrogant bitch of a border guard even tried to play clever and told me that she would be expected herself to carry those papers if she went anywhere in Europe.
I didn't feel like arguing with her (for obvious reasons) but no. She would not have to carry anything except for her passport and even that only to international airports or some of the borders of non-Schengen countries which still have border control.
My cheap, plastic ID card issued by Romania is the only thing I need to travel anywhere from the Eastern borders of Romania to Normandy, from the South of Greece to North Cape in Norway. And unless I break a law, nobody, no conceivable authority (except airport security) is ever going to ask me under any circumstances to show any identification or dare to ask me where I was born.
In Buffalo NY I was close to the Canadian border but still well within the USA.
So much for your precious freedom of movement. As George Carlin once put it: Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They are privileges.
Formerly, we could not go anywhere without a valid passport. I lived near the border with Germany. I needed my passport all the time to pass the border. In my wallet, I had German and Dutch money to pay for groceries or gasoline. To change Dutch money into German money (or the other way around) was always charged with an administration fee. I am so glad we have the Euro and free movement of people. That does help a lot. I am also glad that I can live in Spain, if I would like that.
As for Schengen, I think that almost all europeans agree that's been a blessing... As for Euro, I'm not sure... For example before Euro here in northern Italy we used to benefit from norther european tourism boosted by your stronger currency; and when I wanted to have a cheap holiday I could drive off 1 hour into slovenia or croatia and pay 0.5€ for a large beer 😢... Now everybody is adopting euro and I must drive 10 hours to Serbia or Romania for cheap weekends... This is just a silly example meaning that one single currency for different economies it could work worse... And reharse political controversies within our countries (as we are seeing with the struggles about inflation control and common debt...)
On the other hand the idea of territorial unification and no internal borders within our countries, is something I truely whish we will never go back from...
@@iilcesco Greetings from Croatia, I can tell you that tourism isn't the only industry that had price changes due to euro (thanks to our government that chose to implement it in the absolute worst possible time in history of eurozone ((covid, earthquake in Zagreb, inflation)) we now pay more than double what we payed for basically anything before covid and euro. We feel your pain as well.
@@q1337 here I can say "I told you so" - first thought in my mind
I was working in Germany a while ago with many Croatians. When we were speaking about adopting Euro in Croatia, I told them to be prepared for high rise of prices (As we experienced here in Slovakia many years ago). I can speculate how it works, but in general people handle 0.1€ same as 0.1kuna and it is merit of months able to highrise prices. Older people here are saying - huh, it is 600SKK (Slovak crowns) when see 20€ bill, It was those day enough for a week. (rate was 30.126SKK : 1€), but it is not. Real value is at the best only one third (more realistically 1/6) - money just work this way.
@@stanislavbandur7355 while I understand what you want to say, this is not it, the situation is caused my incompetent financial planning on the side of our government. We pay 25% tax yet have the most expensive food (people visiting from France couldn't believe our prices). Relying on an unstable and easily alterable industry such as tourism while quite literally selling or shutting down any other industrial government assets is the reason it all happened. They bet on the wrong sector and lost big time. Now I have to pay 3€ for a tiny espresso at some locations. While wage increases are not important. Phenomenal isn't it. Imagine what could be done if our government actually cared. Our former president claimed we would become "The next Switzerland" xD Yes, we became the next Switzerland in prices only.
You said money works this way, it is true, but the root cause is bad management, not the monetary system itself.
We have random DUI (we call it Drink Driving in the UK) but we use the scientific measure of a roadside breathalyser test rather than the "Walk in a Straight line" nonsence. We also have roadside test kits for drugs.
Also the checks in the UK are also quite rare. Random stops at Christmas but for the rest of the year only likely if you crash or are weaving all over the road in front of a police car.
We have same in Finland just breathlyzer test no walking the line bs. Usually these stops are more likely in holiday times or maybe near festivals and stuff like that. Some random testing too but it's pretty rare.
Same in Australia, drugs and alcohol testing on the side of the road, randomly pulled out f the traffic, sometimes they will stop every one
@@johnclements6614over here in BE the strictness differs between council areas, but they always use the police checkpoint system. It means everyone that ends up at the checkpoint Will be checked.
Roadside breathalyzer testing is also done in the US. The federal legal limit is 0.08% (meaning that anything above that level is an automatic DUI); however, a person with a blood alcohol level below the legal limit can still be charged with a DUI if their behavior is impaired (there are many people who are visibly intoxicated at, or below, the 0.08% legal limit). That’s where tandem walking and other physical assessment tests come into play, since these provide observable evidence that a person’s reaction times are impaired and they are unsafe to drive. There are limits on the use of these physical assessments, of course, since there are many illnesses that can affect the results (e.g. a person with multiple sclerosis may have poor balance, rather than being intoxicated), and these circumstances are supposed to be taken into account when a person is being evaluated.
When I was 19 and decided to go to the US for the first time, that's when I learned the concept of a visa. Born in europe, travelling through europe every year, I didn't know this was a thing. And then I realized that we were the different ones, that it's common to have rigid and difficult processes to get into a country. I'm from Spain, close to the border with Portugal, and for me it's normal eating in Spain and then going to Portugal to get a coffe, because there's no border, it's just a 20 minute drive.
This is definitely one of the reason why I feel so lucky of being european
There are _Four Freedoms_ in the EU
- Free movement of goods
- Free movement of capital
- Freedom to establish and provide services
- Free movement of people
That is very sad to cite 3 capitalist freedoms when there is actually many more like the freedom of free healthcare ...
@@francoissimon2362 Healthcare is not a _freedom,_ like the others are but you get it in the EU. And it is only valid for unexpected things like I have an acute tooth ache or I break an arm. I cannot go to the Alps for 6 months to cure my asthma.
@@zootallures6470 who decides what a freedom is ? Do you think it is normal that capital has more freedom than humans ? The so-called economical freedom that is so dear to some people is the prison of those that are being exploited. I don't really expect you to understand this but maybe you can take a second and try to think against yourself, cheers
@@francoissimon2362 Not my terminology. Google: "four freedoms eu."
Free movement of capital is not correct - it depends on the country. For example as a Danish person you can buy a house in Spain without living there, just being a landlord. But it does not work in the other direction. If you are not Danish you are not allowed to own property in Denmark when you do not live in Denmark for more than 6 months a year. I know of many people who wanted to buy a weekend home in DK, but weren't allowed to, because they did not live in DK.
i would also go one step further. its not only about travelling, working, studying. i am 50 years old, german and i remember growing up next to the netherlands border. when i was young, before the border opened, everybody around me and also myself thought, dutch people are the bad guys. with the border opening, you start going there, finding out, they are exactly like us. so now years go by with an open border, i like my dutch neighbors, i like shoping there, i also worked there for a year. i love the freedom of movement, it also decreases prejudices.
The Nordic countries have been a passport free area for their citizens since the 50's, as well as free labor market + lots of other forms of collaboration before EU. Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮 😊
Same happened within the BeNeLux for Belgium and Luxembourg.
@@KeesBoonsIndeed and that since 1944. The oldest union in Europe. 😎
@@KeesBoons And Netherlands... 😉
@@KeesBoons the BeNeLux inspired Schengen if I'm not wrong. Anyway there was a lot of traveling between European countries also in the past, just thinking about the Grand Tour. With Schengen the EU countries simply accept that as a natural thing. Maybe one day in the future we will have a global Schengen.
@@nicoladc89 As with all inspirations, who can really tell, but it is quoted as such. I still live under the hope that one day it will be possible for the entire world, but I don't think I'll be around to see it happening.
A lot of my English cousins are applying for Irish passports, plus the Irish government had to open a passport office in Northern Ireland.
And Ireland even it is nonshengen country allow me from inside of Shengenzone to go there with only ID and I can get a job only with ID, how great it is?
It is not so easy for UK citizens now after Brexit, the funny thing is that those which voted to leave now blame the EU for it ^^
I've seen interviews of Brits complaining about "discrimination" at the airport, because they had to wait at the long line for non-EU citizens... 😂 Well, that's exactly what they voted for.
this attitude "always THEIR fault" is for me so frustrating. This will lead us somewhere we would not like to be. This makes "WE/THEY" standpoint stronger and stronger and divide us more and more.
very sad
UK wasn't against freedom of movement... they just didn't want anybody to come to their country 😂
It wasn't the coming, it was the taking of benefits and overloading the nhs, implementing their own laws, then never going . Now you wait and see what happens at the weekend in London. We don't want middle eastern problems in our country.
They didn't want millions of people from Eastern Europe living in their country
.....just because they had a right to
Thankfully, the people who voted for that in the biggest numbers are at the latter end of their lifespan.
@@alan- and regrettably, we shall all have to live with the consequences for much of our lifespan. :(
@@raylewis395 Hopefully not too much. I'd expect within 20 years, once the baby boomers have gone.
I'm a Brit and I'm shocked at how much America doesn't have!
We don't have this anymore
after Brexit, Uk doesn’t either…
I am surprised if you do not know that we lost that due to stupid Brexit.
Australia joined before brexit, in 2015
I am only 50 yo and I remember very well when I was young, we didn’t need passport to cross the border from Canada to US. Every summer, we went at the beach (Plattsburgh) and the only thing we brought that MAY be useful IF needed, was our birth certificate, which we NEVER had to pull out at the border…
I remember that as teenagers, we were always driving around and oftentimes when we were too bored, we went on road trips for a day and end up driving along Lake Champlain and join other teenagers who were grouping along the shore and share bond fires with them and come back home at night… it was so fun.
The last time I went to the beach there was when I graduated from high school in 1990. Still the same. Last time I went in US, I was 20 yo. I went in Manhattan for a weekend visit to my bf’s cousin there…
funny/not funny thing is, this last time was also the first time we got stopped for a couple of hours at the border for a big « search » which they said they did « sporadically »… 🙄
Well, in my experience, it never happened before, but coincidentally, it was also the first time I was crosssing the border with a black family too, since I was with my friend, her brother, her sister and her uncle who was the driver.
How weird I felt and how speechless I was to really « feel » for the first time how it feels to be treated differently because of the color of the skin. It was still the times where we didn’t need passport to cross the border. I never went back to US after. Too complicated now.
Funny how things are getting soooooooo monitored and ruled that I now find it pretty funny when Americans speak about freedom they have… freedom of what tell me? What freedom you guys have more than the rest of the world that we don’t that makes you speak about that famous FREEDOM you are so lucky to have that we don’t 😏
As I see it, there is less freedom than a lot of countries as I see it but I can be mistaken. That’s only my point of view and my experience.
I'm romanian,living in Spain. We don't have any kind of border check,last summer we have been to a festival in Portugal. The only clue you have you crossed the border is a board on the road with,,good bye Spain'' and ,,welcome to Portugal''.Same when we drive to France and further.
@@draculakickyourass I would love to do the same 😏 Unfortunately, the only
the thing our two stories have in common is that we also have the same signs except that it looks more like Quebec welcome you, Welcome to Ontario, etc 😅 Still in Canada tho 🙂
Before there was freedom in the rest of the world, there was freedom in America, and it was written into our Constitution. At that time all of Europe was led by monarchs that could behead a wife instead of a divorce, or draw and quarter a political enemy without a trial. America has a 250-year record of defeating monarchs and dictators all over the world. So instead of being derisive of American famous FREEDOM, you should be grateful that America revolted against our King, and we continue fights the good wars in Europe whenever other freedom lovers can't win on their own.
Nigdy nie przypuszczałem, że w USA poszło to w przeciwnym kierunku, niż u nas w EU. Ja pamiętam dokładnie odwrotne sytuacje, kiedy lata temu miałem kontrole graniczne między Polską i Czechami, oraz Polską i Niemcami, co było upokarzające i zajmowało czas. Teraz nie potrzebuję absolutnie nic do przekroczenia granicy wewnątrz chyba całej Europy, i jeszcze dodatkowo kilku krajów poza granicami Europy
@@odszczepciesie5128 I know right? I am very surprised too 😳
Ryan, apparently the freedom to travel between some states is about be curtailed, especially if you are a female of childbearing age, suspected of being pregnant!
I dunno votters are massively voting against these kind of restrictions. The risk is who wins the next election though.
It can already be curtailed if you're not prepared to divest whatever fruit / veg/ alcohol / tobacco/ firearms to the authorities.
only if you live in Poland
Yrs- Women in some states of USA have no freedom to even choose what to do to their own bodies.
any source for that?
As I watch programs on America, I am convinced it is no longer the land of the free.
Has it ever really been free? Or is the old US 'Freedom' propaganda machine finally breaking down.
It has not been entirely free for a long time.
America is going through a midlife crisis. Just like European and other countries did a while ago. Well … it’s also known as fascism. It usually starts with taking away freedom from the people. Like banning books …
They get to vote for their leaders...Do you?
@@strangelee4400yes
2:49 sometimes in the Us that even happens in between states. Was on a vacation to the US *once* in my live (never again). Had a driver, because I was the tourist, and we got stopped thrice while driving from NC to CA. Some questions the cops pulling us over (on an interstate, what made it even weirder from a german perspective - you don't pull over on interstates, you guide them out of there first). Questions were like "You're licence plate is from NC, what you're doing in TX?" - "Long way from NC to CA, what's your business here?". Happened back in the mid 90s, but when I listen to american friends living in germany nowadays those things are still happening in the US, espcially when you're moving from AK to any other state.
Edit: at 8:06 no, they don't. If british people want to work in the EU they need a work visum (and the other way araound as well'). The Brexiteers were always like "We voted you EU foreigners out", but by now most of them understood they voted themselves out instead.
My ex husband voted Brexit, despite owning a flat in Spain. But then. he applied an Irish passport. If we weren't already divorced...........
At least he did one smart thing. An Irish passport gives a person greater freedom of movement within Europe than any other passport. As an Irish citizen, I have the right to freely travel, live and work in both the EU and the UK.
@@CiaraOSullivan1990 He has revealed himself as a selfish hypocrite in the process.
@@Lily-Bravo Most definitely. He's certainly confirmed that the divorce was a good idea anyway.
Ryan, you are massively educating yourself ! 🙂
Honestly sometimes I don't even realize how lucky I am (we are). I live in a country, work in the same country, have my whole life in same country. So I could think like "I don't need it - the freedom to move and Schengen area". But then I can go shopping to neighboring country that is like 5 minutes away, I can hop on a train with just a train ticket and my wallet and travel where I want, I can use my currency I know in most of Europe, and if I ever decide to move or purchase home elsewhere I don't have to go through bureaucracy hoops.
Now try and vote your leaders out of office....
From Finland, we do have those "lets stop everyone and check for DUI" kinda checkpoints, but they're getting more and more rare. Mostly done close to festivals or things like that. They were more common like 20y ago, iirc my mother got regularly stopped at one when driving my sisters into hobbies when there was a hockey game around there.
Also we have "Right to Roam" on top of freedom of movement in the northern europe. Would be interesting seeing your opinions on that.
The USA replace the "right to roam" with the 'right to get shot"
...and Nordic countries have better freedom of movement. You don't need a passport.
Freedom of Movement is actually four separate freedoms: freedom of movement of people, capital, labour and services. It is regulated in the treaty on the functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in article 21. Even some non-EU countries participate fully or in a limited way as well (eg Switzerland ) as well as the EEA (European Economic Area) members.
In the Schengen area you don’t even need a passport and there are no permanent border controls between Schengen member states (you need some form of identification with you though).
The UK did not want to continue the freedom of movement and therefore now UK citizens require a visa to enterEU countries (which is normally granted on entry).
It is not only about free movement. When I was a young man (60 now), there was a somehow different behaviour and relationship between people from various european countries. In some way we had to work on the history of our ancistors then (esp. when you are german). This has complety changed, positively ... and I enjoy it! Wherever we Europeans will go in Europe, esp. regarding young people, You are welcome as an European.
I am from Italy, born and raised. In high school we did 2 school exchanges, one in France and one in Germany. In university I did an exchange where I lived and studied one semester in Denmark, I had a scholarship so I was paid by the EU to study there. I did my master in Belgium and last year I worked as a teacher in France.
Sometimes I don't think about how lucky we are.
The only thing I don't think your comparison with travelling between states works, cause every country has its own version of states, and if you travel between states you're still travelling inside your country.
WHAT?!?!!? Did you get paid to be able to study and get trained??!?!!? Man, sometimes I feel we don't belong to the same continent.
I've been unemployed the last 16 years and I didn't receive a single cent from welfare, because I'm a white middle-aged male. No money for us at all.
@@BlackHoleSpain I appllied for an Erasmus scholarship and it basically covered my rent and my uni expenses, also university in Denmark is free so that helped a lot. And when I did my master I was able to work while studying to cover my expenses (waitressing and babysitting jobs) but since we're in the EU you can also apply for scholarships and help from the government.
I don't know where are you from but sometimes it's just matter of research and keep asking when you deal with bureaucracy. I know tho that things are so different from country to country.
@@manuela8038 My nickname says so. Io sono della Spagna 😄 I left university in 1995, so no scholarships for me back then.
Here the socialist government only helps immigrants, moors, blacks, gipsies, women, gays, trans and leftish NGOs... no welfare for the rest of the middle-class population.
@@BlackHoleSpainDepending how far, how long and how much living there live, the Erasmus' program will give you an amount money to live. It adds up to financial support, because those exist to
@@manuela8038 Here in Finland they pay you to study - without a scholarship.
I want to comment on the US and states. The laws can be very different, and the police will not have jurisdiction in another state, so it's not like different areas within a civilized European country. It is however comparable to the UK, to a point. The laws differ there as well, and local government has some limited political power of their own. I also believe that it's possible to get a court order that you're not allowed to leave, or visit, a particular state. Don't quote me on that last one though.
Last year i drowe in my car from Denmark and through a lot of different countries in Europe, and never once had to stop at a border crossing. I visited Italy, San Marino, Austria, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Germany.
*drove
Couple of years back i was traveling to Belgiun from Netherlands by bus. I ask the driver if i needed my passport with me. He replied YES. So took my passport and hop on the bus. On the road to Belgium i recived a text from a Belgium telecommunication service that said "Well come to Belgium !!!!" only then i relazed that we had crossed the border. Noone stoped us, Noone checked our passport !!!
Yes because you always have to carry an ID with you. This rule is unrelated to crossing a border. :)
You do need your passport (or ID card) in Belgium, as a proof of identity. You have to be able to show it whenever required by the police. Though it is the only proof of identity they will ever ask for.
But you don't need it to get checked at the border. Imagine visiting this town :
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From Netherlands Amsterdam 47. There are small political parties here against EU government. I have personally never met anyone anti EU. Especially seeing what happened to UK economy 😢 after Brexit
Small? The biggest party from last elections is in nature anti-EU (pvv). The seccond biggest is less pro-EU then the way it goes (vvd). NSC is not anti EU, it is pro EU to be honest, but still want the sovereignity back to the nations. And the 4the party in power rn is BBB, and they are also pretty anti-EU. So what you say is just spreading misinformation. Probably a EU bot or something…
Another big benefit is that it creates stability across borders, and having a stable country next door leads to a more stable economy and a more prosperous country
freedom of movement, which (gladly) we can participate in here.
For me, it meant that i was able to get an Erasmus scholarship and being paid to study abroad (in Germany) to get a higher education at a university. It meant that i was able to work and live in Germany for the time, travel to France, UK (before Brexit), Poland and Estonia. Having a weekend in Vienna, go to Portugal for a week and visit Rome for a few days.
Then .. going back home and being much richer of life experiences. While there was paperwork involved in the EU Erasmus scheme, there was no paperwork needed for all the travelling. In fact, i cannot remember being asked to show my ID other than for my very initial journey to Germany (because, we are not members of the EU).
Glad to have (had?) you here! The more people make these experiences, the less prone we are to stupid racism and xenophobia.
Very simply, for me freedom of movement means that I routinely commute and shop between three/four different countries (but same currency) unrestricted. I'm a Frenchman who lives in Eastern Belgium, a 20-30 minute drive to the borders with both Germany and Luxembourg, and the French border is only an hour-drive away; border and custom checks would be such a pain.
Scheme? Hehe...
You showed your passport when you entered the UK, guaranteed. The UK was never been part of Schengen.
@@jfrancobelge I have a friend who lives in an even crazier location. Southern Netherlands, ten minute drive to both Germany and Belgium, she goes grocery shopping in various countries. She also has a bunch of large airports in 3(four counting France) countries within a very reasonable range, most within one hour. She also studies in Belgium but lives in the Netherlands, so she makes the trip by car when needed, takes 40 minutes.
Here in the UK, predudice led to restriction of movement. Politicians were hell-bent on getting people to vote leave the EU that they were willing to forego this right for British people.
Some British people look down on Europe, this is where Brexit comes from. .Now they are shocked they have extra checks when travelling
Quite frankly this is absolute rubbush
Most British people look down on tyranny, which is why they opposed the Spanish Armada, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and the embryonic United States of Europe.
Rubbish !
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@@patsyadams1833not rubbish one of the reasons the brexit vote went through was a false NHS add campaign that fooled the country and a desire to close your borders, which isn't working too well for ye is it? 😂😂😂
All part of the Brexit disaster.
No freedom of movement for UK people now. Long queues at the borders. No ability to work elsewhere. ...for many of us, a painful loss of our European identity.
Remember: the video was made pre-Brexit. Many people did not acknowledge the reality which was to result. 💔
I'm old enough to remember needing a passport when crossing borders in Europe. I even crossed the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall as a teenager in 1987. Also, every country still had their own currency back then. We used guilders in the Netherlands, while our neighbouring countries used marks or franks.
It sure is a lot more conventient nowadays to travel through Europe.
Yes, it's much more convenient. Sadly, it's not nearly as safe, and you can't trust random people you come across.
I'd take back '90s Europe in a flash if it was possible. Passport control and currency exchanges were not that time consuming, you just had to plan accordingly and not be an imbecile.
We didn't even lock the doors yo our houses and cars back in those days. Today, you'd have nothing left if you did that, and your teenage sister would suffer from molestation too.
Close the borders, bring back civilization!
I remember badly. In 1987 you could cross the border just with your ID card. You could also travel to Italy, Spain, France and Greece without any passport. I travelled a lot in those countries in the eigthies and never had any passport.
@@LightMovies I don't think minors would have even had an ID card in the Netherlands in 1987. From what I can find, identification obligation was only introduced in the Netherlands in 1994.
@@LightMovies Nonsense.
Months for a passport? In Spain we go to the police office with one photo and 30€ and they print your passport immediately. The whole process does not take more than 10 minutes…
UK didn't want Freedom of Movement after Brexit, immigration is a big issue there. So people from the UK are only allowed to stay in the EU 90 days per 180 days and can't work without permits. The EU offered more in the negotiations, but the UK only wanted the freedom from the UK into the EU, not the other way around, so they said no to every offered option. Though quite a lot of Brits perceive this as the EU 'punishing' them because they are not aware that it was the UK who decided to break all bonds and during the campaign the people promoting Brexit promised that 'of course' nothing would change for the Brits except becoming richer.
Conservative politicians didnt. But the majority of the public had changed their mind. Our voting system stops the majority having their say in this country as lib dems always split the left wing vote. Now we're poorer too as brexit has contributed to inflation
A heck of a lot of us Brits could never afford to go to Europe anyway. Except if we would tolerate ourselves being shoved on a cattle truck of cheap skate flight to a drunken rowdy beach hotel. No way thank you not my culture. I once worked many years ago in Ischia in the Bay of Naples. First and last time abroad. Not everyone in the UK is affluent enough to put travel over heating and food.
That isn't true, UK wanted to keep freedom of movement and free borders exchange with EU
Not completely true.
@@Hoenniak No, they wanted free movement for the UK citizens, not for the EU citizens.
Can I just say that 48% of Britain did NOT want to end freedom of movement. A lot of us were devastated. Not all of the UK were for it, just the half that wanted to ruin it for everyone else.
As an older European, I remember very well the border controls back in the day. The heartbeat of if everything is ok, the hidden money in impossible places in the suitcases, the goods and the souvenirs that we had to declare at the customs. I don't miss it at all. A Europe without borders is a blessing.
This weekend we have been in Świnoujście (Poland) and gone for a walk to Ahlbeck (Germany).
My father travelled from France to Poland back in the 60's. Its passport amazes me, it is full of Visas. He went in train, and had to pass thru West Gemany, then East Germany, then Poland, and there are Visas upon Visas upon Visas, noting entering and leaving places and times very cautiously at each post. I know it was the cold war, then, but it's still crazyness seen from here, for he was just a schoolar, visiting other schoolars upon invitation.
just ask your father and you be surprized what cold war and socialistic lager was...and be in mind,that Pland has lite propaganda than Soviet union
this is so ingrained that i never gave it a second thought.
during university, there's this program called erasmus, where you go and study in another country as if you're in your home university.
during and after that, i would just buy last minute flights and go spend the weekend somewhere.
never ever thought about boarders, just get up and go.
The USA got almost paranoid about controlling its borders after 9/11 but, not knowing your age, I'm not going to guess whether you remember much of the 20th century.
However I was somewhat stunned when you said it took you months to get a passport. Like, wtf? I got my last Canadian passport inside of a week and through the Finnish consulate in Toronto I got my Finnish passport in three days. Btw, the thugs at the border crossings to Canada and Mexico are on the American side. I had my car ransacked by the border guards on the US side every time I drove from Toronto to visit friends in Rochester or Flint. Eventually I got so pissed off that I stopped making the trips.
Still, I really like your videos!
Yes. Months for passport?! It is maximu 3 weeks in Czechia, but you can have short time passport within 24 hours!
I agree, I've also been at the Canada/US border a couple of times and on the US side cars literally sped past you in other lanes and simply jammed in somewhere between cars instead of waiting for your turn in a civilized manner. Also took a ridiculously long time, the border guards were downright hostile even if we were obviously tourists.
I've also has to wait hours in line at US airports to get through the passport and finger print control. I especially remember a gigantic room in Miami that was filled to capacity, extremely hot, and a black guy who worked there, who was extremely loud and obnoxious and kept giving orders on how to behave in line. Imagine paying someone to be a fucking asshole and annoy every single person flying into the country. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I genuinely wanted to go up to him and tell him to shut his fucking mouth. However, we would have been delayed longer than the over two hours it took had I done that. Fucking wannabe cop earning minimum wage to be a rude asshole.
I never want to do that again.
It is very simple - if you go to France, you can jump in a rental and visit Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Belgium, etc. without having to tell anybody, without being checked by anybody.
Ryan’s acting is incredible. He makes it seem almost possible that he really doesn’t know anything.
lel. he's so humble
he more than likely doesnt. remember half of the british people didnt realise we had freedom of movement when the idiots and old people voted for brexit
Also Americans are taught so little about anything not American. Pretty bad as we British are well taught on world history ect.
Lol. 👍
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Misleading to be fair
The UK always had to go through border control etc
Always had to have a passport and notify the destination country
So for the vast majority of in and out travel nothing changed
However
Moving or working away did change
It's was the only real down side to leaving for me but one that was I I believe still is worth it
Most of the EU felt like the UK stook two fingers up and said your not good enough anymore
In reality we just wanted different things so decided to go our own way
Brexit!!! Just over half of our idiotic UK citizens thought it would be a good idea to get rid of all these great freedoms and benefits of being in the EU and now we're stuffed. Still makes me angry. Talk about turkeys voting for Christmas!
I really enjoyed your video and comments plus learning more about the world around me.
As an EU citizen, I was appalled during a short work experience in America. So many people in America live lives of servitude because of 'benefits'. In America, part of a person's wage is deducted by the employer, and this deduction, together with a contribution from the employer, pays for the individual's health insurance. However, if you lose your job, you lose your benefits. The result was that many individuals were locked into situations anchored to a spouse or a partner they hated because of the benefits situation.
Living in Europe is a privilege to be honest ❤ life is much easier, you just have to figure out what you want to do and just do it 😊🎉
We are from Germany. In 2019 we traveled to Cornwall in England. To drive to the ferry in Calais to Dover we went through the Netherlands, Belgium and France. There are no borders, no checks. The only time we had to show our passport is to go on the ferry , same way back. We are so used to got to different countries and not even have any problems to cross any border.
Yes, that's the Schengen zone, I love that too! Even Switzerland is in it although they are not in the EU.
UK was NOT in the Schengen area. We have always needed passports to travel to the mainland EU countries.
@@grahamsmith9541 EU National ID documents used to be accepted - but no more.
@@grahamsmith9541 Exactly. People still don't get that. The UK never was in Schengen, nor prior, during or post EU.
@@raylewis395 The UK does NOT have National I.D. Cards. We have always needed passports.
Romanian here. Romania is part of European Union, we can travel , work, study everywhere in European countries without any restrictions. It takes 15 min to filled the papers for a passport and you will receive it by mail at home in 10 days.
The EU citizens also enjoys the means to experience that freedom of movement : roaming in Europe for mobile phones and social security in any EU member State. If you need health care in any member State, you just go for it just as in your home country (you don't pay or you get refunded). So you do not need to pay for a private health insurance (that "detail" makes a huge difference for many UK old people in Southern Europe after Brexit)
It needs to be pointed out that not all EU countries are in Schengen. Movement is restricted, borders function in a normal manner with passport control.
we're all well thank you Ryan. Keep up the good work, we're loving it
I lived in Trieste (an italian city at the border with Slovenia) for almost 10 years. The gas and groceries prices were convenient in Slovenia so going there 2-3 times every week to shop was a very normal thing for me. It has always been a normal 10 minutes drive, the only exception was seeing the sign SLOVENIA/ITALY at the border.
Well... In principle you have this freedom too. As you mentioned, this free movement is, in principle, like the movement between your states. So you can compare, in some aspects, the EU to the USA and the countries inside the EU with the states in US. To countries outside the Schengen-Area, you too have passport control, even when they are inside EU.
The vid was about movement between countries, not oarts of a country. That is a huge difference. Also, we don't need a passport to travel to extra-Schengen countries. ID is sufficient and unless you pose a risk to public safety, you cannot legally be denied entry. Whereas outside of the EU any country has right to deny you entry without needing any justification.
@@MichalMatiyou maybe misunderstood my point. The "problem" is that the relations inside the EU are kind of a hybrid between the States inside the USA itself (in case of trade and traveling, where agreements like Schengen are in place) on the one side and between USA and Canada (in case where no agreements are in place). And comparing the travel situation inside the EU with the situation between Canada and the USA is just invalid, as the EU is more comparable with the States of the USA itself.
@@stephan5279 The only differentiator between US-CAN and intra-EU relationship is the existence of the international treaties (TEU + TFEU) that remove trade and mobility friction. Before the existence of EU the situation had been comparable to US-CAN model. Different legal and regulatory frameworks per country, borders, tariffs, work authorization requirements etc.
I think the same. The EU has roughly the same size as the USA and the Countries the size of the states. There is the USA rather more advanced than the EU. Although, on the other hand, the EU is much more diverse.
The freedom of movement in Europe is a benefit of the European Union. The British got peeved and left so they gave up their freedom of movement with it. There's no cherry picking to keep certain rights but end commitments they didn't like. For example, many of them had to move back to Little Britain because they no longer had the right to live in a European country without special permits.
A lot of them were living abroad and wanted their homeland to get rid of all the pesky migrants, so they voted for Brexit. It took them by surprise they were no longer welcome in Europe, either. They considered themselves "expacts" but in fact they were migrants just like the ones whose lives they scewed up. Never underestimage the stupidity of haters!
For a small majority of the British people freedom of movement meant for them only freedom for Britons, therefore brexit
Freedom for Britons? Having a border to be able to keep criminals out of a country stupid enough not to require ID - unlike most of the EU - had a lot to do with it. Criminal gangs loved being in the UK, very lax policing and no ID? Paradise.
@@HankD13 And you think border control is gonna stop criminals? Even refugees without any resources are able to enter the UK undetected.
@@HankD13 Build a big wall around yourself to keep yourself safe. Problem solved for all of us.
@@HankD13 yeah thank god there's a border now to keep all those criminal british gangs out of the EU. 😁😛
@@alan- We have a great big ocean for that. What most people were sick of was Germany trying to dictate. I didn't want Brexit, but understand why it was done. Angela Merkel was trying to crush the UK into submission, yet every other EU country didn't have to follow HER rules
It is really nice that we have that. I'm from Spain and I'm currently studying in Italy thanks to that, you have the opportunity to learn another culture, another language, know a lot of people and all that.
Do you really not know about the problems the UK encountered after Brexit? One of the first things happening: Lots of lorry drivers had come from eastern Europa - and had to go "home". There were not enough lorry drivers left in the UK to transport all goods which resulted in some empty shelves in the stores.
UK is not the center of the world, even in EU we know some issues you had but not everything, Im not even sure we were aware of your lorry issue
@@Hoenniak In Poland we were, because a lot of our guys ("plumbers", lorry drivers, electricians, etc.) went back home in years of Brexit (like over a milion).
@@Hoenniak Don't "you" me when talking about the UK. I am German & Swiss, living in Switzerland. The problems UK was facing after Brexit were all over the "mainstream" media.
I love the thumbnail you used! 🕊
Ryan, you need to check for information about the Erasmus university exchange program that is so popular in Europe and also see the movie "The Spanish Apartment" which was about students from 7 or 8 different countries sharing an apartment in Barcelona. And the UK flushed all of this down the toilet with Brexit.
We had university exchanges before the UK even joined the EEC in 1973. The EU have chosen to flush this down the toilet only because of Brexit. The problem is that most people are now too young to remember a time before the UK joined and think that the freedoms we enjoyed were invented by the EU. They were not. What the EU did was turn these freedoms granted by nation states as permissions into rights applied to citizens in order to reduce the powers of the nation state. That's a totally different thing. Now that the UK has left the EU, the EU is acting as a (federated) nation state itself and withdrawn these co-operative arrangements in order to punish British citizens and encourage a UK movement to rejoin the EU. The UK should resist tyranny in all its forms.
@@davemac1197Perhaps you should turn to your own politicians who couldn't seem to get their act together and make proper post Brexit agreements. At some point the EU simply had enough of it. I really wonder what tyranny you're referring to. You sound like a salty Brit who got exactly what he wanted and now can't handle the consequences.
The reality is that the UK always had one foot out the door. The UK never fully ratified Schengen nor did it adopt the euro. Brits always point out how they're not even part of the continent (which technically couldn't be farther from the truth but ok). Now you got what you wished for. Transport of both people and goods has become a lot more cumbersome. You're acting as a 100% independent island nation and now you have to deal with the consequences. I'm only sorry for the Brits who voted no.
@@moladiver6817 - you're absolutely right about our own politicians, they are almost all universally incompetent - perhaps the result of not having to run their own country for more than aa generation.
For the record, I did not get what I voted for, I did not vote to negotiate a new EU treaty and think we should have left on WTO Article 24 terms, and I did not vote to leave a part of the UK (Nothern Ireland) behind in the EU single market and customs union. The NI Protocol of the Brexit Agreement actually undermines the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and not preserve it as claimed. The EU's intent is clearly to cleave NI from the UK by economic means (it is already more expensive and problematic for NI to import goods from the rest of UK's internl market, which is ridiculous) and to aid and abet Irish unification against the wishes of the majority in NI.
That's what I call tyranny. It's the opposite of freedom to trade with who you wish without punitive tariffs and regulations, unless you agree to surrender your political independence. The EU is a Fourth Reich and is acting disgracefully.
@@davemac1197 LOL .. " against the wishes of the majority in NI ".... like you care what NI wants ... they VOTED TO STAY IN EU, hypocryte .... They VOTED FOR freedom of movement with their brothers in Ireland ... now you are just afraid they will remember you are OCCUPIERS there . and you do not have the big guns to point to their heads to "convince " them like you did until now.
@@davemac1197 Ha ha ha, there are still some believers of the British farce!
Meanwhile, the Erasmus generation is rising to positions of power throughout the EU and their pan-European identity is beginning to erase the ridiculous national obsessions of the old order.
Unfortunately, the UK threw these freedoms away when they voted to leave the EU. I'd like to add that it was a minority who voted for that and the sensible majority wanted to remain.
Brexiteers had in their mind that they could keep their own freedom of movement while restricting migrants coming in. It did not work that way for them and now they can't move freely anymore and are missing tons of migrant workers exspacially in seasonal work like agriculture.
We had migrant workers on farms in the UK before we even joined the EEC in 1973 - so you have to ask yourself what's really going on politically and not simply blame Brexit as if the EU had existed forever and the UK had done something unusual by deciding to be a free country.
and how many foreign workers do you have post-Brexit?!
@@Attirbful - I'm not a UK farmer familiar with the technical problems, but my understanding is that the EU are not making is easy for them to hire EU workers now. EU were only happy if they had absorbed the UK, but doesn't want to be a good neighbour. We wanted to negotiate an amicable divorce, but the EU have been the abusive partner in the relationship - not really a relationship, more like corporate takeover. It just underlines the point that the uk made the right decision to leave.
@@davemac1197 LOL… You made your bed, now lie in it!
@@Attirbful - our government failed to make the bed we actually voted for, so we still have the problems of a form of associate membership that wasn't even on the referendum ballot paper, instead of being truly free of the EU. If only that were the case.
Your attitude only reinforces the notion that we made the right decision in the vote.
Ofc there are people that are against the freedom of movement, we call them imbeciles.
I'd say the original vid is clearly "Anglocentric" in its views, cultural and political, and language and many of those arguments for freedom of movement, and why most Europeans value it, were not really "European" but more UK( and American/ Australian) specific.
Like diversity as is mostly understood on the continent doesnt automatically mean strength and positive virtue nor its mere diversity of cuisines and fast food( gonna have Chinese or Mexican tonight) or of skin colours but its the European- style diversity- one is expected to assimilate and its about meeting Spanairds, Germans, Irish, Poles, Greeks etc- all of them would be grouped under single one boring and monolithical white/ Europeans in most of native English speaking world.
Similarly to how many Europeans dont put as much importance to the plethora of options when it comes to fast food from all over the world and are used to and like to eat mostly local food and cuisines( Czechs eat mostly home cooked Czech food, Germans most of time eat home cooked German meals, French mostly French ones etc unlike e.g. UK where its most common food is quasi Indian based or US where daily takeouts, like Mexican or Italian or Thai etc, are becoming norm...) we like diversity but not at all costs- most of Central and Eastern Europe is horrified when they watch whats happening in West- like now when mobs of often clearly non European looking ppl vandalising whole city protesting something thats happening on other side of world( be it Palestine or America)
Most of Europe doesnt want such diversity, we are more than fine with ppl who are accepting our norms, laws and traditions- like Ukrainian refugees, but not if the cost of diversity is safety and loss of ones country and demeaning of our own native culture- as we see it in the East whats happening in West is no different from whats been done to Natives in America- like Mexico wasnt always Spanish...
Of course there are some people who always resent foreigners. Since Brexit, and losing their right to freedom of movement, the Brexiteers have been screaming about needing a passport to enter the EU.
I think Ryan is Jim from the Office
Before 1985/1986 you were checked every time you crossed the border. (at least the ID papers). Within Western Europe it was already easier to travel with an ID card and you didn't need a visa.
There are also some countries bordering the Mediterranean (for example Turkey) where you can enter with your German identity card.
At that time, if you wanted to travel to the East (East Germany, Hungary, Poland, etc.) you needed a passport, a visa and sometimes a reason for your stay. And the border controls were particularly intensive when leaving the country.
I am Romanian and I live in Germany since 2015. On Friday I got a call from a work agent and on Monday I was in Germany. I was able to travel only with my Romanian ID card. In one week, I had all the registration papers done and also the medical insurance contract. I started working the day I arrived here. I don't need any permit or anything. In the future I want to move to Spain and all I have to do is to deregister from German government institutions/bank/medical insurance and I am good to go.
How come? That's not supposed to be possible. Romania is not in Schengen.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 please educate yourself. EU zone and Schengen zone are different. Romania is part of EU therefore we can travel with ID card. Schengen zone means: free borders aka no border control. Romania has border control because it has border with Turkey through the sea and drug traffic on sea is very common.
@@alexia2189 What makes you think I don't know that? Absurd guesswork.
I thought you were talking about a local ID card. My bad on that, as you were talking about the official document which is valid in the EU, Schengen and a few select microstates.
Romania has other border control points too. Also, that's the Romanian EEC, it's not referred to as a border. Borders are in practice on land.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 Romania has border on water as well :))) yeah, Romania does have other borders as well, but the main problem is the water one. Because it is a point were illegal immigrants are passing through quite often. Fights with border police on water are often.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 I don't know what local ID are you talking about. The only ID that is recognized abroad is the official one. I never heard about a local ID.
I'm guessing the interview was in Britain.
This would not be possible now because of Brexit.
Good going, you got what you wanted, Brits thought they were so important.
I was stopped once in the 90's for DUI check in Greece. I just popped my head out of the window and blew into the breathalyzer. Thankfully I had forgotten my wallet and I hadn't drank anything. I was also scared because the driver's license was in my wallet . The told me to be sure that I wear my seat belt and I left.
Same in France, DUI stops are just blowing in the breathanalizer, they don't even ask for licence.
Unless your car is all beaten up or you act suspiciously (mostly, refusing the test).
Why are you thankful that you forgot your wallet? Would they have asked you for a bribe otherwise?
@@incumbentvinyl9291 I had no drinks
The ability to be the Law Maker, issues with increased costs and problems with illegal immigrantion, ( not immigration generally, a wide, diverse group who enrich the UK) but NHS tourist and Welfare spoungers are some of the isdues that Brexit raised and was fought on.
This is really old, pre Brexit! But it’s informative about what British people lost with Brexit.
Or gained. Freedom of movement included criminal gangs, well known in Europe and driven out, to the UK that lacks photo ID and an unarmed police force.
Schengen countries can have ID checks if they feel that it is necessary. We've even had that within the Nordics. It's just that Britons now require special permission if they want to collaborate with non-British people and vice versa. We save a lot of money, because Britain was a net receiver and instead of receiving, they are now paying because they no longer get the friends & family discounts. If the British people had been better informed before the referendum, I think they would've voted differently.
@@HankD13 Again, that's not going to stop criminals. Don't be so ignorant.
@@jeschinstad This is some BS you have not saved anything, subtract that net contribution from £100 billion per year from that. Most people i the UK (around 70%) now wants to rejoin and now it'll cost more. www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/cost-brexit-0
@@HankD13 Almost none of our criminals have a European origin, 95% comes directly from the Middle East and Africa. Do you know that the UK after Brexit actually increased the number of migrants from none European countries? (and no, sorry not from America or Australia) Sweden leaving the EU would not help one bit. And we contribute more to the EU per capita than you ever did. This is just the way to f-up ones economy. EU will shut the borders because its people is not ok with migrants from these places any more. The UK leaving was really enjoying, because we could have used your voices for this change.
Due to the Brexit, working in London (UK) is not that easy anymore.
Yeah just this summer I drove from Estonia to Poland through Latvia and Lithuania without having to stop at any borders or passport checks. I don't even have a passport
Then you are limited to travel in Europe my passport allows me to travel the whole world.
In Denmark you can actually put the word "fuck" in the frontpage of a Danish newspaper and no one gives a crap, don´t know if that counts as a type of freedom. I was never forbidden from swearing at home, I wasn´t however allowed to play violent games or watch any type of violent movies until I turned 15.
It used to be a tiny bit of a hassle, you'd have to get a stamp in the passport and in some cases get a visa. Nothing close to when I went to the US though, I had to have a medical exam including the doctor putting his finger up my ass.
That was in the 80ies and it's much more relaxed now, we still need a passport but seldom a visa, and no medical exams. I think we still need a visa for going to eg China or USA, but it's a much simpler process getting one
11:50 The current UK government is strictly against it, one of the reasons for Brexit. The original video must be because of that because it's all Brits giving their opinions here.
In Schengen we don't really have borders. One time I accidentally drove to another coutry and didn't realize it, until I noticed the street signs looked slightly different. The problem is, that criminals make use of this concept. The live in one country near the border, drive to another country to rob a bank and take the money home. The police can't cross the border and arrest people in another country that easily. The police departments from two countries have to work together in such cases, and this takes time.
Question of making good agreements between police forces of neighboring countries. The Netherlands has this with Germany, as well as Belgium.
@@KeesBoons Yes, ... and France, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland and so on. And there is also Europol. This cooperation was already taken into account in the Schengen Agreement in the 1990s. And since then we've got experience and routine with it.
I do think this point is often being a little overdramatised. (And maybe mostly through landlocked people, not by people living near the borders (like me) ;-) ) I am quite sure In the past it was easier for the criminals to go into hiding. They just crossed the green border and they were gone. That's not so easy today because the police works way better together.
In my region some criminal gangs have been caught in this way (e.g. ATM blasters) - they felt too safe in the neighbouring country. They probably thought the borders would protect them from police persecution... they thought wrong. Europe has already grown together quite a bit and it shows results. - what a great thing. So let's keep up the good work.
It seems that international police cooperation works excellently.
Do remember that that video was recorded before brexit. Since Brexit, the UK is no longer a member of the EU and there are no new treaties allowing for freedom of movement between the UK and Europe.
There is freedom of movement between all the EU countries, however. So you can go from Denmark to Italy without having to stop at customs.
Shows what a bloody stupid move the U.K. Brexit was!
Well, at least part of it.
Interesting, since as a Norwegian I have no such Xtra checks...
Even in Africa people have been questioning why we need visas to move between each other and some countries have begun making steps towards free movement between countries
That will work out wonderfully, hahaha!
2:25 The EU is almost like States in the US. That's an analogy I have heard before, and it's not that far off. Obviously there are differences, among other things since the EU consists of countries with vastly different cultures, hostories, and languages who banded together over the past 50 years, while the US was built from the ground up as a union hundreds of years ago. But as an introduction to one when you know about the other, it's not a bad starting point.
The EU is actually nothing like the US. It's an international organisation which only has as many rights as the member states allow it to have. The EU has no way of actually enforcing its laws should a country decide not to follow them. It can do stuff like withholding funds or suspending policies, but that's no different than a country withdrawing from an international treaty.
A country can just decide to leave the EU and there's nothing the rest of the EU can do to stop it from doing so, other than arguing it would be bad for them.
The US states have some say in the federal law, as constitutional amendments need to be ratified by a certain number of states to pass - but if, say, Texas was the only state not to ratify an amendment it would still pass - and if it decided not to follow said law, the federal government would have the right to enforce it anyway. They would have no legal way of ceceding.
This is not just a subtlety or a nuance, this is a fundamental difference that makes the US and EU fundamentally different entities. The US is a federate state like Germany or India, it's not an international organisation.
Shame your glowing account missed the horrendous problems many countries on Europe are having with the free movement ideology
@@igorbednarski8048 "Obviously there are differences [...], but as an introduction to one when you know the other, it's not a bad starting point." Apparently you missed this part. Yes, the federal US government has more power than the central EU government. That doesn't make me wrong.
The EU is the biggest open market in the world and all 27 EU members profit from that. People, goods and services can move freely within the EU. Since the first EU started in 1957, not a single gunshot against a person from another country was fired in the ever growing organisation. Most other European countries want to join the EU. Since the Brexit, the UK no longer profits from all the EU benefits and people can no longer travel to EU countries without customs checks and vice versa. It is more difficult and more expensive to export to the EU for British business and vice versa. The UK has lost 4% of its economy since Brexit and has failed so far to replace the very profitable old situation with new business deals elsewhere in the world. The US was not interested in a different deal with the UK.
Yesterday's video on healthcare was six years old. This one is seven. There's something of extreme relevance happening in the world *right now* impacting European Freedom ... speech, assembly, protest. It involves a country that begins with the letter "I" and what it's doing to the state that begins with the letter "G." (If I type their names YT removes my comment.). Perhaps you'll consider covering this topic.
Іsrаеl Раlеstіne Gаzа Gеnосіdе
Feel free to copy and paste these words as needed. They won't get deleted because half of the letters are Cyrillic.
@@CiaraOSullivan1990 Over half my comments are removed when using these words.
In the UK and EU you have right to cross a farmers fields as long as you do not interfere with his crops/animals, unlike the US where you are liable to get shot
That is true freedom
DUI-checks in Germany are very common. They can just stop you and check anything safety-related. And we don't have an issue with that. They check how old your tires are, if you have a first-aid-kit (non-expired!), if you're high or drunk, if you have insurance. Then you go your marry way - or get busted for driving unsafely. I'm grateful for that, it makes being on and around the streets safer.
As an Irish citizen, I have greater rights to freedom of movement within Europe than citizens of any other European countries. I do need a passport to go to mainland Europe but there are no restrictions on entry. It's basically the same process as returning from a non-EU country; just a quick check in the EU passport holder's line. Once there, I have the exact same rights to freedom of movement as any other EU citizen and I have the same rights to live and work in any EU country. On top of that, I also have the right to travel to the UK too, and I have the right to live and work there as well. I basically have the same rights as both an EU citizen and a British citizen combined.
The EU is built at core on the "four freedoms"
Freedom of movement of:
* People
* Capital
* Goods
* Services
It is not perfect, but a work in progress. And yes, could lead to a future United States of Europe.
It's more likely to not exist within 5-10 years. Several countries are looking to leave for their own reasons, not all the same as the UK's but similar, Italy, Poland, Spain, Greece all moving towards 'Brexit' style votes and even France is mulling it over but that is less likely, given that they are one of the two ruling nations of the EU.
@@Thurgosh_OG I certainly hope not, and I will do everything I can to help it survive.
At core, the European Union is a peace project, and stronger than you imagine. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster for the UK, and we are looking to re-establish closer ties.
My husband and I are teachers in Spain. And before every summer we choose which country we would like to go to and teach summer school. We really like ireland and switzerland. So we just apply to summer school programs that are hiring. And the entire family moves in for the summer. We are 3 people, mum, dad and baby Cedric.
What the UK did with Brexit is like Texas not being part of the US anymore, so for texans to travel abroad, they would need to be checked at the border. And for export of goods the goods would need to be checked and the right paperwork would be needed to cross the border. They would not only loose fredom of movement of people, but also of goods. And trading would mean extra taxes, for instance import taxes and all that goes with it. In short, the UK basically isolated itself from the continent and many barriers that weren’t there before Brexit now hinder trade and people.
Sorry but as a Brit we were always checked at the borders as we are in island nation. We get more business from Europe now than we ever did thanks lol We can now trade with who we want.
@@grahambeadle9067Wrong! I lived in the EU (as a Brit) for a few years and the only time my passport was checked was when traveling to Switzerland. I traveled to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Austria without once being checked. It was only when I traveled to Britain (before Brexit) that I needed a passport to cross the 'border'!
Well thats funny i needed mine every time@@Mabinogion
Nigel Farage was the loudest voice for the U.K. leaving the E.U.,but made sure his children had dual nationality so they could travel and work in Europe. Hypocrisy at best, duplicity in my view. mind you, he was by far from being the only one, most rich people did the same. I've seen yt posts of americans despairing of their fellow countrymen, well you ain't alone.