Minor Border

Since the border between Austria and Hungary became a "Schengen border" it seems to have lost its meaning. Therefore the border stations, among them the "small border crossing" in Nickelsdorf/Hegyeshalom, are being removed. The border persists culturally and socially, based on historically grown resentments and new European laws. 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the border still exists as division in income and life standards. And for those who travel to and within Europe without all the necessary papers, the border is not a line to cross anymore. They are carrying it with them wherever they move, in the form of electronic doubles in databases, that are made to watch and control each of their steps. People related to this border talk about the ways it still exists in their own languages.