Snapshots: 2016 summer in Europe

Here are snapshots taken in five European countries -- the U.K. Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary -- in July and August in 2016. It was about a month after Brexit –- the U.K.’s decision to leave EU.


EU and UK

28 EU flags in Brussels  
  -- When will it become 27?

At a bookshop in Bloomsbury, London

  -- Disputes continue over Europe

Flags in front of Financial Times 
  -- Company flag and EU flag, no Union Jack (late July, 2016)

Border control @ St. Pancras Station, London
  -- for Eurostar trains

Terrorism, migration and national security

Guards at Brussels South Station
  -- It became the scene of everyday, everywhere

Brussels International Airport
  -- the road to departure floor

Sint-Jans-Molenbeek in Brussels
  -- Many migrants here

Budapest East station

  -- A handwritten board: “Europe, your humanity is lost”

Presidential Palace in Warsaw

  -- Flags of Poland, EU and NATO

European integration

UK café in Warsaw

  -- No borders for companies

Prices in Euro and forint in Budapest
  -- around Euro zone

ATM for Euro and zloty in Warsaw
  -- exchange commission is low

Bike sharing in Budapest
  -- rapidly spreading throughout Europe

Common value, common culture

Wenceslas Square (Václavské náměstí) in Prague
  --Prague spring, Velvet Revolution

Hungarian Parliament in Budapest  -- Hungarian Revolution of 1956 

Franz Kafka's birthplace in Prague-- Good cafe restaurant

Copernicus statue in Warsaw
  -- The Copernican theory was released in the 16th century

  

Visit also
Budapest: August 2016
Prague: August 2016
Warsaw: July-August 2016
Brussels: July 2016
London (after Brexit): July 2016