When we were teenagers in Poland, it was the end of the 1990s and by then we had already acquired the freedom to travel to Paris or London to go to language school and work.
The gates of Europe were closed for half a century to our parents and grandparents. For us, however, the miracle of the fall of the Berlin Wall meant we were able to pass through that door freely.
Ten years after our first travels, one cold December night in 2007, people gathered on the bridge over the River Oder to celebrate the Schengen agreement, which was beginning to take effect.
Today, the political focus is shifting from time to space... as the EU gradually ceases to deliver the promise of a better future, this decision by Olaf Scholz's government is a bitter reminder of closure.
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