Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >> No, I am not confising anything :-). All EU countries citzens can >> enter Poland using their EU ID. They cross the same gates on airports >> as people from Shengen zone. The only diffrence is that non-Shengen >> countries' members are subject to diffrent custom regulations and they >> can be examined by custom officers. It also apply to EEA countries >> ((Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) and based on separate treaty also >> Switzerland.
> I think you are confusing things... I am a British citizen and I'm > fairly sure I need a passport to enter a Schengen zone country. Once > I'm in a Schengen zone country, I think I can travel to another one > with other ID, but I need a passport for the first Schengen country. No, British citizens with an identity card can enter the EEA and Switzerland without a passport in the same way that I as a German citizen do not need a passport to enter the UK. > The Schengen zone has absolutely nothing to do with customs, as far as > I know. If you are travelling from an EU country to an EU country, > there is basically not customs (you walk through the blue channel). That's basically correct with some exceptions (Heligoland, Ceuta/Melilla, the French départements d’outre-mer, etc.). Tim _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
