The main beneficiaries of extra UK red tape on prospective language students are Ireland, Malta and the US
  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    ~20 years ago we were on vacation in Zeeuws Vlanderen. It was e x t r e m e l y boring. (Sorry, Zeuws Vlanderen). So we decided to hop over the channel to visit England. Our kids were too young to have their own ID cards, and as citizens of Schengenland we were not prepared for the UK border control. Of course nobody on the French side cared to tell anyone about British immigration rules. So we were at the border control in Dover without IDs for our kids. They accepted their health insurance cards, and we spent a wonderful week in Kent and London, even meeting a veteran from the battle of Arnhem. Luckily they let us leave as well – it occured to me only years later that leaving might have become a problem.

  • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Looking forward to in ten years, when all EU citizens enjoy their full pre Brexit rights in the UK, the UK abiding by all EU standards to gain access back to the market again and all the while the UK has no say in the European politics anymore but simply can choose to abide or go back to harming itself.

  • nivenkos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Don’t people always carry passports anyway? A lot of airlines refuse ID card only travel so it’s always too risky IMO.

    • muelltonne@feddit.deEnglish
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      6 months ago

      German here: There are two kinds of ID, our normal ID card, which everyone has and the passport, which is rarer. We can travel to the whole Eurozone + Turkey + most of the Balkans + Switzerland + Norway with the ID card, so basically to most of Europe which is currently not at war. Many people don’t own a passport, because they can travel as much as they want through Europe.

      A passport costs 70€ and you have to do the whole bureaucracy for it, take a picture and visit your local town hall. So if I want to visit the UK with my wife, it would cost us 140€ extra and we might have to take time of work to get the passport. The alternative would be, well, every other European country. France. Spain. Italy. Why go to London, when you could also go to Rome oder Paris and it’s cheaper?

      Also: The UK was of course a popular destination for school trips. All pupils are learning English and therefore it kind of was a natural destination. Visit London. Go to a few museums. Visit that Shakespeare theater. Those trips are impossible now because you’ll run into serious problems with pupils without german citizenship.

  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    lol

    Guess I’ll never travel to the UK again. Why would i bother to carry a passport for some island in the north sea?

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Why would i bother to carry a passport for some island in the north sea?

      It’s not like they ever adopted a sane currency. At least a passport is useful all over the world, their niche currency is not accepted in any desirable travel destination.

      • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Don’t forget that they have Scottish pounds which everywhere outside Scotland are snubbed and you can exchange them for less than the British pound even though in the UK they should be interchangeable. This blows my mind

  • ebikefolder@feddit.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    There are other destinations in Europe. Who needs the UK? I used to go there occasionally, in the past, but if they don’t want visitors anymore… so be it.