30% of the EU population live in border regions
These people go to school and university on the other side of the border. Work there. Shop there. Go out to restaurants there. Go to events and museums there
And this *is a wonderful thing*
This is how we better understand each other. It’s what the EU is *for*
Put #Schengen in question and you put all that in question
Yes - I live in Luxembourg where it is estimated that something like 220,000 people cross one of its three borders every day to come here to work. I live about 15 minutes drive from Belgium, maybe 30 minutes from France and 40 minutes from Germany, and pop over to Belgium to do some shopping or to France to eat in a restaurant. It's very difficult to explain that to mainland Brits because they live on an island!
@Paulos_the_fog Sure, but I am not trying to explain it to Brits but to some Germans who don't get it!