Danes checked twice on way to Sweden

Sweden is checking Danes travelling via train twice. Those arriving at the Copenhagen Airport are required to get off their train, walk through the arrival hall to another platform, show a valid ID and then take another train to Sweden. When this train arrives at Hyllie, the first station in Sweden, they are checked again by Swedish police.

As reported by The Copenhagen Post, the Danish check is the responsibility of the carrier, and the Swedish check is a police border control exercise – and both leave travellers sandwiched in the middle.

According to Sweden’s Foreign Minister Anders Ygeman, the process could be streamlined if Danish authorities allowed Swedish police to carry out their checks at the same time as the first check at the airport. But this would mean Swedish police would be operating on Danish soil – something that is not allowed under Danish law.

“The Swedish government is talking with Danish representatives regarding a solution,” Ygeman told News Oresund. “It is a complicated and lengthy process for Denmark to allow Swedish officials to act on Danish soil.” Læs mere