POV: you’re an Eastern-European crossing the German border in your car
POV: you’re an Eastern-European crossing the German border with German plates
(In my personal experience)
Seriously German border control are the rudest and dumbest bunch ever. Not much has changed since the wall went down it seems. Must be a lot of AfD trash working there.
Borders with which country? Because I never had issues, maybe they are really good profilers?
Random skin color check
i cross a german border every now and then. did so for years. they were always professional. sometimes people act up, then they are quick to shut it down, but what do they expect ?
The border patrols this article is talking about only started end of 2024.
i know my subjective eyperience is not representative, but i also crossed the border via train in 2024. these trains are routinely checked
its not very disruptive. they walk through the train and rarely actually approach people. If they do, its usually over pretty quickly (if documents are in order i assume)
Did you cross often at the end of 2024? If not, how can you know the new kinds of controls are done routinely?
I think you’re still talking about the previous controls.
End of 2024 they started at all borders some borders are controlled regularly for years now. I think some are dating back to 2015.
Yeah it’s annoying (specially in night trains) and I’m all for abolishing them again but I also only ever have experienced the officers as very professional. But I’m German so who knows.
Do Denmark, Poland and Sweden next please.
For some other countries, I suspect they only do it to inconvenience German travellers as a fuck you for Germany pushing the same shit onto them.
With Poland, if I recall right, instating border checks was a reciprocal measure for the German border checks.
Denmark has been doing that shit for longer already AFAIK, with all kinds of interesting excuses, like “preventing the spread of Swine Fever”.
No idea about Sweden, but I guess they mean it, too, they do have a far right party in their ruling coalition after all.
Denmark has several exceptions from the Maastricht treaty, border controls being one of those.
It’s ridiculous and should finally stop
