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Originally Posted by AnTyx
Uh... How does that work?
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I think it's the overland version of having to live in the airport
Re asymmetric borders, I've gone into France from the UK several times without anybody being bothered whether I have a passport or not. You turn up and they wave you through all the 'checkpoints', often without even looking at you. But in 51 yrs of going to France I've never got back into the UK like that. In recent years, with the ramping up of the 'illegal immigration crisis', the miles of razor wire fencing and armed French soldiers strip searching your car when you arrive in Calais makes it feels more like North Korea (or 70's Albania at least) than a liberal western democracy. It may be at 'something must be done' Defcon 1 level at present but to a greater or lesser extent there's always been an element similar to cold war paranoia on the British side. Since Schengen especially the French have been far more relaxed.
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