#schengen zone

So.

Question: Do you know what the Schengen area is?

Answers:

Yes (from an EU country)

No (from an EU country)

Yes (from a European, non-EU country)

No (from a European, non- Eu country)

Yes (from a non-European country)

No (from a non-European country)

Please people of tumblr for the love of all that is holy. Save me from this insanity. People cannot possibly be that uninformed.

Like I don't even expect you to know how the EU government works cause it's a clusterfuck but. If you're an EU citizen. The least you should know of is like. The freedom of movement of work, capital, people and goods, the existence of Schengen and like that the parliament Exists and that you can Vote For It. (Next election is summer next year actually.) And also like, the flag and anthem maybe.

Prof Ghassan Abu-Sitta, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon was due to speak about the war to the French parliament’s upper house on Saturday. However, after arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport north of Paris on a morning flight from London, he was informed by French authorities that Germany had enforced a Schengen-wide ban on his entry to Europe. Abu-Sitta said he had no knowledge that German authorities, who had previously refused his entry to Berlin in April, had put an administrative visa ban on him for a year, meaning he was banned from entering any Schengen country. “What I find most difficult to accept is this complete criminalisation,” Abu-Sitta said on Sunday, adding that he was previously told by authorities he would be unable to enter Germany for the month of April. “I was put in a holding cell and marched in front of people at Charles de Gaulle with armed guards and then handed over to the staff in the plane, all so that I’m unable to give evidence,” he said. Instead of taking part in a conference at the French senate to speak about Gaza, on invitation from Green party parliamentarians, Abu-Sitta was stripped of his possessions and taken to a holding cell. Before being deported to the UK, he was able to attend the conference via video on his lawyer’s phone from the detention centre.

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