Why Europe Is Starting To Control Its INTERNAL BORDERS Too

[@General.Knowledge]

*Do you think Europe's internal borders should be open or closed?*

[@bazinga-tt9pj]

If countries can't control the amounts that reach them by land, then close them. As for a start, actually patroling and pushing back on medditeranian migrant routes most likely would fix the issue to the point the land control exept the outter EU borders, wouldn't need such measures.

[@archstanton6102]

@@bazinga-tt9pj Is difficult when pro Russian states like Belarus and Serbia literally dump people over the border into EU countries.

[@dantetre]

This is a very low quality content video compared to other General Knowledge videos. :/ Inaccurate maps, outdated maps, misleading explanations because of not paying attention to details.

[@DavidLimofLimReport]

Open

[@Spino2722]

@@DavidLimofLimReportnah closed

[@dantetre]

0:15 Spain is a border State. Ceuta and Melilla is in Africa next to Marocco and they have a 3 layered, Nato-grade fences and barbed wires surrounding them!

[@Aydin-Adam]

That's not a Schengen border. It's Spain and Morocco

[@olbiomoiros]

yeah well tax payer money should be going back to the tax payer in quality public services, not to refugees and immigrants on benefits.

[@Highdragonprest]

The Muslim occupation of spain and Portugal taught them better Muslims would try to bring back al'anderlous Muslim spain or however it's spelled

@@olbiomoiros Migrants pay a lot more in taxes than what migrant management takes.

[@mybuyinginsights]

Correction: no border controls don't mean free movement. The UK had free movement before Brexit but still had border controls.

[@Serge-cm5my]

Different situation Ireland and UK are island nations.

[@terra7066]

He's talking about the Schengen area not the E.U. The Schengen area is an agreement between several countries to create a common entry and exit policy to remove border controls. Some EU countries like Ireland , Cyprus or Bulgaria are not members and some non EU countries like Norway are. Before Trudeau became the Canadian Prime Minister Canada thought about becoming a Schengen State becuase only European countries can be EU members but there is nothing in the Schengen Treaty forbidding any country in the world to become a member State. The UK and Ireland never signed the Schengen treaty , the European Union doesn't have a common visa and border control policy , whoever enters Ireland from outside the EU is up to Ireland and was up to the UK , the UK as an EU member could not and Ireland can not refuse entry to an European Union citizen because they signed the treaty of the European Union that gives freedom of movement to all European citizens. Iceland as a Schengen State can not deny entry to a Greek but can deny it to an Irish , the Irish can also deny entry to an Icelandic but can not deny it to Greek. Immigrants from outside the European Union , including from the Schengen area , when the UK was an EU member were an UK choice and immigrants that enter Ireland are the Irish government choice the E.U doesn't have a toss to do it and neither the Schengen area because Ireland is not a member. If Ireland decides not to ask entry visas to the Afghans , Chinese , Namibian or anyone else it can , they are just not allowed to travel to the other E.U countries. The UK had and Ireland has it's own visa and border control policies to non E.U citizens.

[@lazrseagull54]

That's because the UK never joined the Schengen zone. You can normally drive from Portugal to Finland without a passport as there haven't been checkpoints on the motorways, train stations or other roads or footpaths etc. for decades but to get into the UK, you always needed to bring a passport or EU ID card as they had booths set up to check everyone at every port, airport and train station entering or leaving the UK, even when they were in the EU. This kind of thing would be a nightmare on the continent as people living in border towns would have to bring documentation and join a queue for a checkpoint just to get to work, school, go shopping or just to visit their friend across the road. They would have to split the entire town in two. There are residential roads where the traffic lane going one direction is in Germany and going the other direction is in the Netherlands with homes and shops on both sides. Train stations would have to make space to build seperate platforms for train lines that happen to cross a border. They would have to build fences along the borders through fields and woodlands. This would just be really awkward to implement. This plan to close borders for 6 months would likely only be the case on motorways and main roads that have space for such a thing and maybe they'd have border police do random checks on trains, Which is what usually happens when they close the borders. I just can't see them building fences all over the place.

[@Liggliluff]

Borders have been temporarily closed in the Schengen area many times now. Wikipedia even have a list of when it has happened per country. It was the most prominent in 2020.

[@pollutingpenguin2146]

Because Germany and Sweden fucked up big time in 2015 and now they are having buyer’s remorse.

[@Fluxwux]

Sweden are even giving migrants 35 000 USD per person, and entire families over 100k USD to revoke their citizenships and residency permits to permanently leave Sweden and the EU 😮

[@hompanit8942]

😊👉👈

[@reineh3477]

If countries in south and east stopped the refugees, Germany and Sweden would not have these problems. My suggestion as a Swede, send them back to Denmark and Poland, if they don't want them they should have had stronger borders in the south.

[@Pidalin]

Yeah, here in Czechia, we are transit country, a lot of migrants go thru our country to Germany, we are happy for all of them who are not caught by our police and it's German problem then. 😀When our police shows how many of them caught again, people in comments are like "just let them go to Germany" 😀

[@togerboy5396]

@@Pidalin Bro, keep that up and the German people might want the Sudetenland back. Who’s gonna help you if you anger all your allies?

[@Pawel_Mrozek]

In the meantime, in Poland, while we are building a 1,000 km long and 50 km wide heavily fortified line on the border with Russia and Belarus similar to DMZ in the Korea: "Heh, please kids, what do you know about closing the border and control?"

[@no.6660]

I hate how these rights surrounding immigration were made a long time ago by people who couldn’t possibly imagine the modern situation

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

Don't be a hater. Be gay.

[@BonVoyage861]

It was all planned. Some naive people think it's all just a mistake by governments..

[@Victorvondoom9159]

Yeah they should be all abolished

[@Aydin-Adam]

Or....maybe the modern situation is exactly what they were hoping for when they got rid of border controls.... 🤔🤔🤔

[@onegalghadaf]

How was the situation before different

[@aurorasun-qs1pg]

Good economic times: we can help refugees Bad economy: Sorry we need to take care of our own

[@akas1255]

If they didn't let in the invaders, they could have just kept the good economic times rolling.

[@balmashev93]

Refugees should work and not just sitting at home

[@cungzjohnjohn122]

Well it makes sense actually.

[@mildlydispleased3221]

@@balmashev93 They're not allowed to work at first due to stupid asylum laws. Let them work and they will.

[@jstressman]

The first caused the second.

[@adamk4775]

Good well balanced video on a pretty difficult topic. Well done!

[@robinvivalavida]

Thanks for the good information pretty man

[@Eyad_Negm]

Did you finish the video in 1 minute???????

[@robinvivalavida]

@@Eyad_Negm I finish a lot of things in 1 minute

[@Eyad_Negm]

@@robinvivalavida sure sure (I want to be the first comment 😶‍🌫️)

[@NotinEzugo]

@@robinvivalavidawtf 💀

[@MateuLeGrillepain]

Guys I spent too much time in Hawaii and I have forgotten what a land border is

[@beth7935]

Lol, I'm an Aussie from our island state so I never knew what they were in the first place.

[@Long_Live_Asir]

@@beth7935Island/ continent state.

[@jerryberry5480]

Me who have lived in both Philippines and Australia. I have never thought anything about land borders lol. The only time I’ve ever experienced crossing a "land" border was going from Italy to France

[@vardekpetrovic9716]

@@jerryberry5480 You are too young to remember when Australia bordered indonesia in western papua. Oh the young.

[@Sofus.]

Here in Denmark we have had border control since the beginning of 2016, I live near the border and there have not been any major problems.

[@pablix_]

Denmark was always selfish.

[@ryboi1337]

​@@pablix_borders are selfish? 😂

[@mildlydispleased3221]

What a stupid argument. There weren't major problems before 2016 either. "I've been drinking my own urine and I haven't been attacked by tigers, that must mean it's working."

[@felliceteii6944]

@@pablix_ How?

[@vardekpetrovic9716]

No problem? What about the immigrant death squads from sweden that is murdering people for money in denmark?

[@komocity269]

Here is a "revollutionary" idea that some may call it "the obvious thing to do".... Instead of creating internal EU borders .... why not share the bill to patrol and secure external EU borders?

[@YourD3estinY]

The map in 0:35 is outdated Croatia has been part of Schengen since the beginning of 2023.

[@Pidalin]

Random police checks close to border were completely normal always, it's nothing new, people now react like if they built iron curtain again or something. 😀

[@bridaw8557]

Yes. Just because the “EU” exists now, it is a new idea. In the past, you were checked for passport on the trains, planes, and road borders. It’s much safer for everyone, even those looking to enter.

[@Pidalin]

@@bridaw8557 Yes, but I meant checks already in EU and schengen, we are in schengen since I think 2007 or 2006 here in Czechia and it was always normal that you just passed border and then you could be randomly checked by german police or vice versa by our police, it's nothing new. Police is still located on border even when we are all in schengen, maybe you don't see them directly, but they are definitely somewhere near.

[@JakkeJakobsen]

​@@bridaw8557I've been stopped by customs officers and/or police officers at the Norway/Sweden borders 10s of times the last 15 years. This is nothing they've just started with.

[@HahnJames]

Good video. Great channel.

[@pieterjan29]

Here in Belguim we dont do on border checks for 2 reasons. 1 we cant afford it and 2 we are like the cause they check the borders XD

[@pmichelazzo]

And 3, we will not spend time with such bullshit since we have thousands of beers to taste 😉

[@Battle.Tomato]

4.You need to check your highways

[@pieterjan29]

@Battle.Tomato Oh believe me the road is a small problem. Big problem is the uncontrolled migration and the port of Atwerp importing drugs that goes to the rest of Europe. They are shooting and bomb front doors in the bigger citys.

[@ThrE3-GeS]

as a map nerd like you i have to point out that you said bulgarias border to türkiye is controlled yet on the map the border to türkiye is not highlighted in red. i know an argument could be made cuz it‘s not shengen, but bulgaria and romania are only part of the airspace and internal maritime borders of the shengen area, yet their land borders are highlighted in red.

[@realhawaii5o]

For some reason, I've been randomly checked at the borders of Latvia as of recent. As I'm Portuguese, so from Schengen, it doesn't affect me that much, but it's still rather silly.

[@piellamp]

u scored a banger against aston villa keep it up bro

[@Unclekase]

About time really. Few years late but better late than never

[@Victorvondoom9159]

Not really this is not what should have happened internal EU border controls should have never happened and are ultimately useless if people are just stopped in another EU member state, what should have happened a long time ago was massive pushbacks on all external EU borders and not allowing the migrants in the EU in the first place, but this was stopped by lef wing criminals who care more about the invaders then about Europeans

[@wizbobliverpool2034]

Hi! Quick question- why did you go away from videoscribe videos? And are video scribe videos monetised?

[@northbreeze0198]

"Here's why", yeah BC it was hard to figure that one out myself :D

[@ScarletRebel96]

We all know why to be honest , when your a country and bad talk and mistreat your own citezins who are already struggling while letting thousands if not millions of others in then this kind of thing is inevitable

[@a6mzero474]

I m from Germany from a border region, de controls aren t effective, we have a very leftside chancllor who had to do the controls of the border because of inner pressur, but he did it in a way that migrants still can come in without problems

[@azelucy1798]

Yeah germany cant do shit borders are huge that would be so expensive

[@Victorvondoom9159]

I mean Germany shouldn't have to do any border controls it has only internal EU borders so that shouldn't be the problem at all because the migrants should be stopped before setting foot on EU soil the fault of this is the NGOs financed by the left wing German government and them attacking frontex and border states who do pushbacks actually solving the problems

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

​​@@azelucy1798 But could still be enforced by sending the illegal migrants away instead of giving them freebies when spoting them inside Germany.

[@zimsuk]

You missed Denmark was the first to do it in 2016 and have been doing it since (temporarily 🤨)

[@DanielK0428]

Good decision finally. People in the west finally noticed that Europe is Europe and not Africa

[@Natogoon]

Internal border restrictions is economic suicide for the already faltering European economies. We need more cooperation on matters of security and defense to create a rock solid external border, patrolled by a pan-European border force, and keep our internal borders open for trade.

[@abeeceedee1842]

It would be smarter to work together economically and work on unity and free movement. The internal border controls can be removed if we deport all illegal immigrants and reprocess previous applications.

[@RandMantearTheDragon]

​@@Natogoonin the 2000's EU and US about the same. Now the US is double EU. And dgp per actual European is down and has no children to earn money to pay for twice the elderly. So EU has already committed economic suicide.

[@TweedleDean]

I'm not European but the Canada/US border has not been the same since September 11, 2001. Prior to that, Canadians could enter the US simply by showing some ID, not even photo ID was necessary (I think i used my birth certificate). Since then, a passport is required. The level of friendliness disappeared thanks to something that had nothing to do with Canada! I like the mug updates at the end.. nice job tying it in to the video's topic! ☕

[@dantetre]

3:45 Romania is not a full member of Schengen, it has to be controlled on land, a.k.a. on the Hungarian-Romanian border... Same is true between Greece and Bulgarian.

[@bottleflaskan802]

Only 10 years to late🤷‍♂️

[@S.G.W.Verbeek]

...

[@bazinga-tt9pj]

​@@S.G.W.Verbeek???

[@S.G.W.Verbeek]

@@bazinga-tt9pj exponents can feel overwhelming.

[@mildlydispleased3221]

Imagine getting upset that brown people exist.

[@BonVoyage861]

50

[@pieterjan29]

Sad thing I realized now is that Belguim doesn't do border controlls because we are like the cause of it. Like uncontrolled migration ,failed send back policy, and the large import of Drugs by the port of Antwerp.

[@pax_carburendiana]

Europe is not a single entity. It never was.

[@Got-lander]

Big time border checks in the Suwałki gap between Lithuania and Poland.

[@PapilioArgiolus]

Thanks so much for very informative video 😊 Subscribed your channel 🥰 Greetings to your Nowegian gf :) The Mooms are a character created by Tove Jansson from Finland 🇫🇮 my home country.

[@weamibrahim2146]

3:48 Bulgaria and Romania aren't part of land Schengen yet. You mention it later, but here you say it as if border controls aren't supposed to be there

[@callyral]

What exactly is a border check like? I've only ever traveled to one other country and that was by plane. Like what documents would they ask you for if it's different for each country Edit: Maybe they would just ask for passport?

[@PatSmashYT]

When your capital is only like 40% the native population, then there is a serious issue

[@musicmann83]

Not really. We are all human, grow up

[@Scr3wgermanyandtheeu]

@@musicmann83 then by your logic america shouldnt be for native americans. Europe for its natives, europeans.

[@Scr3wgermanyandtheeu]

@@musicmann83 found the great replacement supporter

[@joshuaatkins6452]

Please allow the Jet Lag channel to be exempt from this😂😂😂

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Great video.

[@OctavioOrtiz-q4f]

Could you do a video on South Yemen the only communist country in the Arabian peninsula

[@eden0115]

The best part of living in Japan is that is a completely isolated archipelago 😂

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

It is a colony from U.S.A. as many others lands of the Earth.

[@d3nny_s3mpai]

​@@joãoAlberto-k9x "Colony of U.S.A" Dood you sound just like my incompetent dad 🤔

[@SenseAddict]

Me as a tourist might be disappointing but this solution proven that crimes are getting serious in Europe

[@Ivanculina1]

Good Job

[@tonysutcliffe5032]

Close the border's we cannot just continue to let millions of free loading gimigrants in.

[@Kaito028]

It's one thing if countries accept immigrants, but it's another thing if the immigrant population wants to assimilate into the culture and value of those countries.

[@hompanit8942]

huh, isnt the goal with immigrants to assimilate em into society?

[@KINduz3jp]

💯

[@Jo-vp5kr]

Some current illegal migrations are allegedly orchestrated by states to cause internal instability and distract populations (i.e., boats sitting idle in the Mediterranean; Eastern European migrations with specific gender-based roles: men for labor, women for sex work; increased criminal-related migration, unlike the predominantly student-based migrations of the '80s and '90s).

[@stuarttunstead6616]

Surely you would want them to assimilate into the culture and values of their new home country?

[@ysb08]

Integration is allways better than assimilation. Why should people stop speaking their native tongue and stop living their culture and/or religion because they settled in another country? As long as you live accordingly to law, basic culture and speak the language or English youre fine

[@abcdefg4160]

Correction: Croatia is in the Schengen area.

[@AustrianPainter14]

It doesn’t take rocket scientist to understand why

[@destro4157]

I want to ask why didnt they just guard their outer border ?

[@General.Knowledge]

They do! Frontex monitors the EU's external borders.

[@Frahamen]

They very much do.

[@JxH]

Installing fence posts into the Mediterranean Sea is very difficult. They tend to just tip over and sink.

[@destro4157]

Oh ok thanks guys

[@abeeceedee1842]

They care more about public relations than effective border defense. They often take in illegal immigrants to look humanitarian.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

"Migration expert" is a scam. Treat them as such.

[@archstanton6102]

If they study migration patterns and behaviour for years, why would they not be an expert?

[@joshygoldiem_j2799]

Source?

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

​@@archstanton6102 If their advice is bad then either they are not expert or they are a traitor, regardless not worth trusting.

[@archstanton6102]

@Hardcore_Remixer What are youbtalking about? Why woukd their advice be bad? Oscar Schindler was called a traitor, now is seen as a hero.

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

@@archstanton6102 And I don't deny that he is a hero for having saved the lives of many Jews. Though, the notion of hero and traitor depends to what you regard as 'the objective'. He was obviously a traitor to the nazy because he was a hero for the Jews. Also, back to our current situation in EU, the fact that we opened our borders to 3rd worlders without ensuring they assimilate to our culture caused the rise of crime rate and endangered our national security. So, those who advised this either: - had no idea that their advice was bad, case in which theh do not deserve to be called experts - knew that what they were suggesting will bring harsh consequences, case in which they betrayed us, the very people they were supposed to serve with good advice. And no, they're not heroes because we were not putting anyone in extermination camps (which we thankfully don't even have). They didn't save anyone, but only doomed us.

[@clement2780]

provinces too; travellers on bus tours river cruises , ocean excursions should be rxempt

[@SkyTheHusky]

Correction: Romania and Bulgaria's border checks are imposed by Austria, even if they have nothing to do with said borders. Romania and Bulgaria do not want these border checks.

[@RandMantearTheDragon]

Because the internal movement zone Schengen is a very stupid idea without strict outside border control and limited immigration.

[@roberthancox]

If you are unable to control who enters and leaves then you are no longer a sovereign state and therefore no longer a country.

[@lazrseagull54]

That's been outdated for decades. It's like saying if you don't have a city wall with a Knight at the gate controlling who enters and leaves, then you are no longer a city.

[@TMandarinka]

no country on earth had border controls until 1914

[@jackismname]

You may technically be correct but like if any of these countries wanted to they could (and obviously are) close their borders.

[@HistoryPhilologistDude]

why don't you mention Switzerland?

[@archstanton6102]

Not part of EU and their situation has not changed.

[@noahbrock349]

@@archstanton6102 Although it is in Schengen. The EU and Shengen are not synonymous. Ireland is in the EU but cannot be a member of Shengen since it shares a Common Travel Area with Britain.

[@HistoryPhilologistDude]

@@archstanton6102 Switzerland is a "European Country"! Check out the title! ;)

[@archstanton6102]

@noahbrock349 thanks for clarification. I had not realised this. Andorra is not but both neighbours are.

[@HistoryPhilologistDude]

@@archstanton6102 Norway isn't EU too but in Europe.

[@hufflepuffjoh]

0:35 I'm sorry but you coukd uave used a more uo to date version of the map. Croatia is now part of Schengen. And of course the UK is not EU anymore

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

Is that your dog in the background?

[@stephenclark9917]

No.

[@General.Knowledge]

Yes!

[@pietjepuk7463]

Why? Look at what happened in Amsterdam tonight...

[@archstanton6102]

You mean after the taxi was trashed and Palestinian flag burnt the night before?

[@edelweiss7928]

No actually that was a rare good thing

[@noahbrock349]

@@pietjepuk7463 Exactly. The terrible consequences of open borders.

[@basvriese1934]

lol, that is in no way relevant at all. Some Isreali's got triggered because a lot of people in Amsterdam support palestine. These Isrealis then did vandalism which resulted in backlash from the local populace. I hope you are aware that these Isreali football supporters are almost guaranteed to have come by plane and thus have been checked when entering the country. What happened has absolutely nothing to do with border controls...

[@bazinga-tt9pj]

​@@archstanton6102 a burnt rag doesn't mean you're free to beat people up lol

[@luizbomfim2840]

A questão é muito simples. Você deixa a porta da sua casa aberta? Todos podem entrar? Não né. Fim da discussão.

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

Don't worry. Be happy.

[@phaephi]

The world belongs to everybody as long as you are a human beings you have the right to move around earth we are of the eart we live on the earth and we are buried in the earth

[@Wherearethenukes45]

Nope. Europe for europeans.

[@Wherearethenukes45]

Stop supporting the great replacement

[@Wherearethenukes45]

A country without anti immigration laws is no longer a sovereign nation, and therefore not a country anymore.

[@CanadaBricks]

I wouldn’t be surprised if even stricter measures come along in the new year regarding Ukraine, seeing as though it’s inevitable that Trump will pull funding, allowing Russia to potentially push further into Eastern Europe

[@stargazer-elite]

And also Americans like myself who would want to escape trump

[@ryboi1337]

​@@stargazer-elitelol

[@isaiahkerstetter3142]

Local autonomy eases the burden of a centralized system. If the EU allows its constituent nations to protect themselves and seek their own interests, they can avoid the volatile political climate and foreign policy changes that come every 4 years in my little centralized soft empire: U.S.A. Let your nations be themselves. If our States were more autonomous, the whole world wouldn't hold it's breath with fear everytime we have a national election.

[@yorgunsamuray]

Well, not in a very short time...but I assume that EU will disband one of these days. It might turn into a purely economic union like the old EEC, but I think it'll eventually happen.

[@tealkerberus748]

Or the conflict with Russia will inspire them to work more closely together. Monitoring movement across borders is aimed at controlling people who are not citizens, not those who are. It's a very effective way to slow down spies and saboteurs - now they have to have adequate fake ID to travel from one country to the next, whereas before they could go wherever they pleased once they got inside the EU.

[@askadia]

In my opinion, we European should have one union-level police body, consisting in police units from single member states, that patrols external EU borders, and reports directly to an European law enforcement agency. During hard times (and another Trump presidency on the horizon), we should unite more, not get fragmented like whimsical schoolboys.

[@joshygoldiem_j2799]

NOOOOOOO NO NO NO NO NO think about the right-wingers😆😆

[@bazinga-tt9pj]

@joshygoldiem_j2799 think of what lol? Majority of EU's right wing blocks starting with EPP as center right, have very little objections in getting countries more unilateraly involved with policing outter EU borders. The 2021 Belarussian border crisis proved that Frontex and NGO were either toothless or actively putting border countries and the EU in danger with their decision making "skills" when confronted with methods of hybrid warfare such as artificially induced migrant border crisis.

[@puraLusa]

That would be a good idea but certain borders are impossible to do that, like the ones who literally cross someone's house etc. It's why the concept of open borders between members started. Also, between certain members even when there were strict borders the locals would cross daily without any check, cause it's impossible to control big borders.

[@FinnishKnight]

I'm glad european countries are finally realizing the risks of immigrants. It's a shame that in countries like Sweden it's too late

[@jacobwitt2070]

I wouldn't say "too late" but it would require an economically intensive solution, and it wouldn't happen without them being labelled racist or xenophobic.

[@Pan_European_Paganist_Movement]

We really need an explanation why... 🙄

[@ferretyluv]

Anyone who’s ever tried to do a roadtrip across Europe knows they’ve always had hard borders. Those damn vignettes are so annoying. We don’t even need a special vignette to go to Canada or Mexico, just a passport, so why are your Euro highways so garbage?

[@johnhemphill1938]

I didn't hear the alarm

[@DenshaOtoko2]

I guesse Portugal and Greece or Malta?

[@robertyoung2661]

In exchange for the trillions of euros that flow East and South, sadly very little is coming in return.

[@WhitRose97]

This makes a lot of sense now. I have traveled twice in the past year and experienced border checks. I took a bus from France to Poland with 0 checks. On the return trip we were stopped and passport check not once, but twice within Germany and a third time upon arrival in France. I took a bus to Italy from France last month without a border check on the way there but on the way back into France we had to pull over and every single person and bag (including our luggage under the bus) was taken off the bus and checked.

[@Feynman.R]

This is very sad

[@rogink]

Coming from the UK, it's normal to have to show your passport to get into another country. And thanks to Brexit now I get a stamp in my passport :) I quite like the new GK, but in ways miss the old one. The complicated graphics were part of the appeal. I'm sure they took a lot more time to produce, so I can understand why he decided to show his face and talk to the camera. But I'd like to see some of the old style stuff once in a while.

[@aruak321]

Only since the early 20th century (specifically the outbreak of WW1). Prior to that most people could more or less freely move between countries. It was only in 1920 that the passports that many nations started issuing at the outbreak of WW1 became standardized at the League of Nations. In the early 20th century before WW1 and in prior centuries, people could just uproot and move to another country. That's how a huge part of the initial migration to America happened and there were no border checks (and passports didn't exist).

[@rogink]

@@aruak321 Most people? I'm not sure how to reply to such an idiotic answer. Most people barely moved from their village, never mind country. Yes, some rich people travelled around Europe, but they would need some kind of travel document to show where they came from.

[@aruak321]

@@rogink reading comprehension... I said most people could. Not that they did given the greater difficulty to move. However that still didn't stop millions and I'd argue that America would never have become the country it is without those millions of "illegal" immigrants migrating for a better life.

[@ann-mariturkia7828]

That's not a guy fishing on the cup, it's a woman 😅 Too-Tiki is her name

[@weamibrahim2146]

0:43 map is outdated tho

[@lukesalazar9283]

Good.

[@Lisbonese]

I don’t mind getting rid of Schengen and return border controls to sovereign nations. As EU citizens we would still be allowed to cross borders within the Union without much hassle.

[@C5Dynamite]

Islam is right about women

[@z0phi3l]

unpopular opinion, but this whole open borders thing was never going to work, no matter what the EU claimed

[@butlazgazempropan-butan11k87]

It worked untill they started letting a bunch of random people in

[@weamibrahim2146]

I love the way you address this sensitive topic concisely, but without a hint of bias or opinion

[@JxH]

Brexit is contagious.

[@vardekpetrovic9716]

pre-schengen people could still travel across borders just fine. This is a flawed reasoning. UK macaronis and german upper class travelled to italy on their "education tour" and pilgrims has always been allowed in europe to travel unhindered by the state. The strong border controls was set in place during the Franz joseph era and the age of nationalist revolution of 1848 by Franz Joseph von Habsburg to supress the minorities of the austrian empire. Then it spiraled out of control fomr there.

[@taldje7672]

random like if you look midle eastern or not

[@babulapiderazi1924]

Because its based

[@KawaiiserKillhelm]

döp döp dö dö döp

[@Aydin-Adam]

in September 2018 I was stopped at a border checkpoint in a small border town on the France-Italy border in the Alps. So, they've been largely open but there has been some control for a while. Mainly looking for smugglers who tend to take roads less frequently traveled, where there aren't cameras monitoring the roads

[@DLeadVox]

💛💛💛

[@edelweiss7928]

Because we’ve had enough

[@thecrazyyoutuber2017]

Interesting

[@ChristaFree]

In the 80s the EU didn't exist. I lived there. There used to not be any visa requirements for travel but there was always borders where you had to show a passport. France was the first country to require a visa, if I remember correctly, but we knew a back country road from Germany to France. There was never any of this open travel between countries without having to give a passport at the borders. The exception were those back country roads, but there were very few of those. The visa requirements started because Palestinian terrorists were blowing up Europe in the 80's, they've been terrorists for decades. I got taught how to look for a car bombs when I was in the 7th grade. Europe was way better then, pre EU, than it is now. My last trip was in 2018 and I don't think I'll ever return. It wasn't safe walking alone after dark, couldn't even leave my hotel room. What a shame, it used to be great. I grew up there. You're kinda off on your facts honey.

[@PaulSmith-zt7ix]

Please do episode on Mediterranean boat patrols and ocean immigration

[@joshuacollins5022]

But when America does it we're racist 😒

[@johndavidnew]

Sad, but understandable.

[@12345abcd-t]

No borders, no armies. One planet, one humankind.

[@kzcciynk]

Too naive

[@roberthancox]

In your mind you must be living in some kind of cuckoo land.Europe is now facing the dire consequences of open borders.The slow death of Europe.

[@Historical-Stuff]

Civil war speedrun be like:

[@sunny2355]

They shall BORDER CHECK everyone !!!!!

[@EdT.-xt6yv]

David benatar's ANTINATALISM,,,

[@lipingrahman6648]

Thank god, I was wondering when this farce was going to end. Also, what shared European identity?

[@rhubarb2301]

why he kindaaa

[@dawidblachowski]

But this is only on roads.. They don't check whol borders, like on forests, rivers, lakes etc. It's only for car movements.. that's like more symbolic imo.

[@bridaw8557]

Not too long ago it was trains and airlines as well. And yes, it matters tremendously how the removal of these checks and relaxed immigration policies have affected the whole of Europe.

[@fortheloveofmusic860]

They all do it under pressure of right wing parties. In Germany the centrist-left wing government did afraid to lose ground to the conservative and far right parties. France the same. In The Netherlands it's being implemented by our far right-populist government because they convinced themselves we have an asylum seekers crisis (the influx hasn't been as low as it has been in years, but it suits their asylum-seekers-and-muslims-are-to-blame-for-everything framing).

[@Cristian.Niculaescu]

Bravos! I don t want Schengen! - From România!

[@Bobogdan258]

You aren't living on the border so you can't see the huge lines of trucks before entering your own city.

[@UserVVV69]

After immigrants destroyed their contries they just realized to close the borders 😂