Originally Posted by
Kgmm77
A potential charge against Sweden for Breach of Union law.
Indeed, that's what I'm wondering about. Did this (and in particular the preferential treatment of Swedes) constitute a breach of the Schengen Border Code or other EU law? Do I have any recourse as an EU citizen, beyond making a complaint?
Originally Posted by
danielflyer
I would never walk through the border without authorization, but a previous poster noted that the guards relented after receiving pushback from passengers. They certainly cannot give preferential treatment to Swedes.
EU law is very clear here:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...X%3A32016R0399
Wanting and getting are two entirely different things. The officers may have wanted people to wait in this situation, but that is not what they are entitled to get.
Maybe I am just too brazen, though. Before I got my EU citizenship, on several occasions border guards asked why my residence permit was in my passport instead of a a card / only had X days left / etc. “This is what I have, it’s valid” always sufficed. Maybe they would have liked to see a longer period of validity or a different format, but they had to take what I gave them.
Valid documents are valid documents.
That would have been me as the OP
