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You mean they might ask to look at a passport? With a piccy of you inside it? Seems entirely reasonable. There's one place i fly to regularly in italy. It has got a bit better recently but many times within the last ten years i have had to wait in a very slow moving queue while a bored looking individual slowly slowly looked at documents.
One or two (ok maybe 1) of the posts above (not yours) seem to be raising the spectre of the iron curtain. I can't see what we traditionally think of as western europe changing much in this respect, discounting of course checks to do with the threat of terrorist nut jobs, which is an entirely different issue.
Nor is britain going to make visiting germans, italians, french folk get visas. Why would we?
A bit of perspective please.
We are talking about folks on holiday.
If there was even the slightest chance of visa controls don't you think the likes of easyjet would be mounting a massive pr campaign warning, quite naturally, of massive economic consequences for all? And them.
It is possible in suppose that if the likes of poland went a certain way politically they might get a bit difficult. It would be very unwise of them though. Do they really want to go back to the days pre 89 when i had to appeal, via an employer, against their initial refusal to grant me a visa for a holiday?
One or two (ok maybe 1) of the posts above (not yours) seem to be raising the spectre of the iron curtain. I can't see what we traditionally think of as western europe changing much in this respect, discounting of course checks to do with the threat of terrorist nut jobs, which is an entirely different issue.
Nor is britain going to make visiting germans, italians, french folk get visas. Why would we?
A bit of perspective please.
We are talking about folks on holiday.
If there was even the slightest chance of visa controls don't you think the likes of easyjet would be mounting a massive pr campaign warning, quite naturally, of massive economic consequences for all? And them.
It is possible in suppose that if the likes of poland went a certain way politically they might get a bit difficult. It would be very unwise of them though. Do they really want to go back to the days pre 89 when i had to appeal, via an employer, against their initial refusal to grant me a visa for a holiday?
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...there's no hope then . Did the Treaty of Rome per se made any difference to border controls ,it was all successive from then onwards but very slowly - decades later borders were still quite restrictive but yes, we were often waved through and Yugoslavia was indeed worth visiting..
