Originally Posted by
Flying Lawyer
Strict border controlls between Switzerland and its neighbours ended in the early 70ties. I hardly got checked on ANY European land border (with the exception of the UK sea border). However, Schengen changed one thing: Europe takes its borders to the non-Schengen countries more serious,
From 2002-2007 (and even thereafter) I had a huge number of surface crossings between then non-Schengen Switzerland and various Schengen countries that showed how non-seriously Schengen Europe took at least some of its surface borders with non-Schengen countries. That didn't mean that all of those surface crossings between the Schengen and non-Schengen countries involved no serious border checks, including by the German authorities paranoid about who knows what ... even money.
