this thread is a result of splitting up the driving in Europe thread. please follow it in the Scandinavia forum.
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chrissxb
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europe forum
Originally Posted by
jacob_m
Both Denmark and Germany are part of Schengen and have been since the very beginning, that means you can cross the border without having to show your passport.
If you fly between Germany and Denmark (as this is a flyer forum after all) then your flight would be regarded as a domestic flight.
The fact that Denmark is part of Scandinavia is quite irrelevant.
Denmark did not join Schengen at the very beginning, and the "irrelevant" fact that it is part of Scandinavia is in fact the very reason it wasn't able to join Schengen from Day 1!
Long before Schengen there was the Nordic Common Travel Area (established in the 1950s) - which included a non-EU member state, Norway. It was Norway's membership in the Nordic Common Travel Area which delayed Denmark's entry into Schengen - the Nordic countries did not implement the Schengen Agreement until 2001.