UKRAINE ... exactly ten years ago

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UKRAINE ... exactly ten years ago

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Exactly ten years ago: while passing that border nobody told me that I was actually leaving Europe!!
My original blog here below:

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The continent of Europe ends at the Urals.
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Tiggertoo wrote: 19 May 2022, 10:54pm The continent of Europe ends at the Urals.
... that's the institutional definition, but when you arrive at certain borders the perception might be quite different
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ConRAD wrote: 19 May 2022, 1:01pm Exactly ten years ago: while passing that border nobody told me that I was actually leaving Europe!!
My original blog here below:

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Possibly you are conflating Europe and the EU, by that reasoning, when you enter Switzerland you are leaving Europe.
I shall have a read of your Blog though.
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Steve X wrote: 20 May 2022, 9:10am... when you enter Switzerland you are leaving Europe ..
... well, when I enter Switzerland ... as well as UK, Norway, but also the Vatican, San Marino, Andorra and many Balkan countries I'm just leaving EU and not Europe.
ps: my statement at the beginning of this thread was just a matter of feeling ... even Ukraine of course is Europe!!!!
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that's the institutional definition, but when you arrive at certain borders the perception might be quite different
No, that's the geographical definition, the political one referencing the European Union is not the same.
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ConRAD wrote: 20 May 2022, 10:23am
Steve X wrote: 20 May 2022, 9:10am... when you enter Switzerland you are leaving Europe ..
... well, when I enter Switzerland ... as well as UK, Norway, but also the Vatican, San Marino, Andorra and many Balkan countries I'm just leaving EU and not Europe.
ps: my statement at the beginning of this thread was just a matter of feeling ... even Ukraine of course is Europe!!!!
I can imagine that Russia doesn't feel like Europe to many Western Europeans. In the same way Iceland probably doesn't.

(nor Israel/Australia, for Eurovision fans!)
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