Originally Posted by
uiucengineer
Ohhhh when you mentioned extra countries being a hassle, you were talking about connecting flights and not the train? I don't do much international travel.
In some ways EU is like a "country" Minimal borders - same currency (for many)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
At the end of 2020, the only land borders with border controls (not counting temporary ones) between
EU/
EEA members, are those dividing Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania from each other and from the rest of the EU.
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