Comments on: How the Norway-Sweden Border Works

By: Alan Rhodes

Alan Rhodes — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:50:56 +0000

I live in Norway and regularly travel to Sweden to do some grocery shopping. There is a physical customs post – a hard border – but most times a private person will not be stopped. Lorries are checked and about twice a year private cars are stopped to check the amounts of alcohol, tobacco or meat are not being exceeded. Each time a stop is imposed for a day a lot of people end up having to pay extra duty. Whilst the border is not in anyway a burden, a hard border does exist and the infrastructure is exactly what N Ireland and the Republic are trying to avoid

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 23:27:25 +0000

A lot of Norwegians cross into Sweden to do their grocery shopping; meat, for example, is said to be cheaper in Sweden, and also booze, I think there are limits on how much they may bring back to Norway. And apparently smuggling goes on (ok I got the latter from the TV series, Lillehamar…LOL).

By: Paul Casey

Paul Casey — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:08:50 +0000

In reply to richard verney. Richard Verney - kindly read a book on the history of Ireland before making such uninformed comments.

By: Godfrey

Godfrey — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:29:37 +0000

Why are there no more night trains between Sweden and norge

By: Gordon Milner

Gordon Milner — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:47:27 +0000

Why can’t British politicians and EU representatives learn, or do they have an alternative agenda?

By: richard verney

richard verney — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:21:27 +0000

i lived in Norway both in the 1980s, and also in the 1990s, and there was never a hard border between Norway and Sweden, nor between Norway and Denmark. Given that history, there is no reason why there need be any hard border between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

The claim that there needs to be such a hard border is simply a ruse to make leaving the EU appear more difficult than it needs to be.

By: David Nikel

David Nikel — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 14:36:46 +0000

In reply to Denis. Depending on how you are travelling you probably won’t even need to show your passport

By: Denis

Denis — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 12:22:53 +0000

I am planning on visiting sweden from England and from sweden straight to Norway, can I pass through with just a passport?