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Norway wants to give Finland a mountain


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Moving mountains: Norway wants to give Finland a new highest peak

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/18/europe/norway-mountain-gift-finland/

This may be the pinnacle of gift-giving. Some people in Norway are mounting a campaign to give part of a mountain to their vertically challenged neighbor, Finland, to mark the 100-year anniversary of Finnish independence in 2017.

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36 minutes ago, Clair said:

If Finland doesn't want it, I'll take it.

I'd check their tax rate on "unimproved" property first ;) 

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12 minutes ago, and then said:

I'd check their tax rate on "unimproved" property first ;) 

But it's pretty so I'm keeping my dibs on it...

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12 hours ago, Likely Guy said:

That's mighty neighbourly.

Mighty neighbourly

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That impresses the hell out of me. This must be a first?

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so current situation right now is there's a border checkpoint 50 meters off the summit that any climbers from Finland had to bring passport along?

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5 hours ago, woopypooky said:

so current situation right now is there's a border checkpoint 50 meters off the summit that any climbers from Finland had to bring passport along?

Both country are in the Schengen Area, so there are no border checkpoint between the two.

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On 30/07/2016 at 2:58 AM, Likely Guy said:

That's mighty neighbourly.

It was certainly big of them.

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1 hour ago, Gingitsune said:

Both country are in the Schengen Area, so there are no border checkpoint between the two.

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Your map is outdated, Switzerland, white in all that mauve, is also in the Schengen Area, since 2005.

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Thanks for noticing, I gave a quick look whether the Eastern countries were in, but it seems they forgot Switzerland. The Eastern countries became part of the Schengen Area in 2014, right?

Regardless of what map on internet says, I didn't meet any custom agent neither to get in Switzerland from France by TGV or to get out by plane back for Paris when I went there two years ago. Pretty much as Schengen as you can get.

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