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ROMANIA AND HUNGARY ARE FINALLY IN FUCKING SCHENGEN? I CANNOT BELIEVE IT
there MUST be some ridiculous catch right. what the fuck. actually cannot believe they opened the land borders
i was like CERTAIN they would allow in one but not the other, or not open the land border. but they finally let in both and opened the land border??? what political horse-trading enabled this i can't believe it
i am happy about this, to be clear
it's just a bit surreal
like what the fuck
look as someone who has gone through “temporarily reintroduced for 6 months” intra-Schengen border controls every time she came back from the airport in the last 6.5 years of her life, i am in disbelief and overjoyed that the spirit of the Schengen project is apparently not dead
oh goddamnit i did mean bulgaria in the first tweet
(i swear from the bottom of my heart i do not routinely confuse hungary and bulgaria; the first tweet is the result of a double error, where i misread the linked tweet, got excited, then mistyped my reaction, and made myself look silly in the process, but the dream was real?!)
you can actually now drive from kirkenes to athens without at any point leaving the schengen area. sadly, that doesn't mean it will be without border controls in practice, but they will be “light”
@hikari Nature is healing. Before WW1 it used to be possible to travel across borders without any documentation. If Vincent van Gogh had been made to require a passport, I don't think he would have ended up in France and paint his best work.
Passports were supposed to be a temporary measure to combat spying. But when WW1 was over, passports remained in place. And here we are.
@hikari I had border control when leaving the EU that was lighter than border control I endured when the cops decided they need to search my car for drugs for an hour because I drive a poor people car.
They didn’t even have a dog, didn’t check any of the common places. They really just wanted to be as much of a bother as possible and if I had half a gram of weed on me that would have been a bonus