Why All of Europe’s 41 Territorial Disputes Exist Today

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[TheGeneReyva]

Italy: We have this method that follows geological patterns and...
France: We have this method where we have Mont Blanc.

[MozartTheGOAT]

He forgot the garden dispute I had with my neighbour yesterday

[victorycupcake]

Germany taking a neutral stance in a border dispute between Austria and Switzerland is genuinely hilarious.

[fejic]

Topic: European disputes
Balkans : Our time to shine

[TheEGrievous]

How many border disputes do you have? Balkans: Yes

[Max]

90% of border disputed dont matter until someone finds oil

[stephenwmsmith]

I love how Croatia is all "On THIS side of the country with Slovenia, we use Modern River borders, but see on the OTHER side with Serbia, we have to use Historical River Borders"

[francescocremante]

0:33 Italy-France
1:59 Germany-Netherlands
3:13 Germany-Switzerland-Austria
4:39 Ukraine-Romania
5:42 Uk-Ireland-Denmark-Iceland
6:57 Croatia-Montenegro
9:33 Croatia-Bosnia (2018-2022)
11:07 Croatia-Serbia
13:28 Bosnia-Serbia
14:15 Spain-Portugal
Moderate Disputes
16:46 Uk-Spain
21:27 Slovenia-Croatia
24:50 North Macedonia-Greece
Serious Disputes
28:27 Kosovo-Serbia-Albania
33:02 Cyprus-Turkey-Greece
39:38 Greece-Turkey
42:18 Moldova-Ukraine
43:40 Georgia-Russia
45:46 Russia-Ukraine

[__adrey__]

I love how Austria keeps popping up as a standard measurement unit in geography videos.

[sschueller]

You forgot the ice border between Switzerland and Italy that is moving. They have to agree to a new border constantly and sometimes it's not always accepted right away.

[altromonte]

55 minutes? In the old days this video would have been 55 hours long.

[monarchist]

I once served as a UN Peacekeeper on the island of Cyprus. I saw quite a few shenanigans occur in the section of the buffer zone I patrolled. A drug-fuelled Polish student wandering around in his underwear. Tourists and the elderly walking around. A man and his kids taking a shortcut to school through the buffer zone to beat the morning rush hour. A young naked couple in the back of their vehicle taking their relationship to the next level (They told me they had no idea they were in the buffer zone; I said they must have known their country has been split since 1974). Asparagus is also illegally grown by farmers on both sides. So when you see asparagus in your supermarket labeled Greece or Turkey, chances are it's from the Cypriot buffer zone. Smuggling is also a rampant problem, with human traffickers active in the buffer zone. Some Turkish soldiers I met were of English origin, and one lad was a Londoner. Apparently, men of Turkish descent must serve in the local Northern Cyprus military through national service. They visited too long and couldn't leave without serving in the army. The small arms of both sides are also interesting, being a hodge podge of guns from the Cold War. Good times.

[Royce]

I like how the background music steadily becomes more intense as the territorial disputes grow more severe. Great video!

[bean_burrito]

My favorite country of "Itlay" 0:35

[HECKproductions]

some of this is really kindergarten level stuff
"no i own 57% of this puddle with nothing in it" - "nu uh you only own 52%"

[duc]

Finally a RLL video whose content fits its length

[Skattberg]

As a Swede i want to add that we also claim all of Norway

[goncalobraz]

15:43 just a couple weeks ago Portugal’s defense minister Nuno Melo officially stated that Olivença belongs to Portugal

[MikaTheGamerWolf]

The border on the Lake constance (Bodensee) is not a border dispute, they never drew the border on top of the lake in the first place and nowadays the lake is considered a condominium, because all three countries don’t bother fixing it.

[saph_films_]

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