{"id":104758,"date":"2025-05-15T23:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104758\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T23:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:25:19","slug":"germanys-border-controls-are-annoying-the-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104758\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s border controls are annoying the neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">\u201cWHAT CAN you do?\u201d shrugs Ryszard Noryskiewicz, zipping along the A12 motorway in his old Chrysler on a bright spring morning. \u201cThe Germans are going to do what they do.\u201d Mr Noryskiewicz, a Berliner originally from Warsaw, has been driving back and forth between his two countries since the early 1980s. In 2007 Poland\u2019s accession to the eu\u2019s Schengen passport-free zone changed everything. What had been a fraught border crossing marked by intrusive inspections and suspicious guards became as simple as slipping from Berlin into Brandenburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWHAT CAN you do?\u201d shrugs Ryszard Noryskiewicz, zipping along the A12 motorway in his old Chrysler on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,770,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-104758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-poland","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114514436007682195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}