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Pitfalls in 24 languages

As Mrs. May was busy signing her Article 50 letter to Donald Tusk, which will have the effect of revoking my citizenship of the European Union, I was on a business trip to Indonesia. On returning to Frankfurt airport I went through passport control using the accustomed short queue labelled EU/EEA/CH. This made me conscious of the fact that in two years time I will have to use the longer queue together with my American, Chinese and Indonesian friends. That is unless the signs are changed. However there is not sufficient space on those signs to add a simple "/UK" sticker, so it will involve completely changing the signs at considerable expense. As a local taxpayer I can hardly approve of such expenditure, even if it does cause me personally some inconvenience. So it is probably the long queue in future.

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