Around 1.5 million Europeans cross a physical border within the continent every day to get to work. They are known as frontier workers.
For a while, Carla and Oriol, a Spanish couple in their early 20s, were two of them. They used to live in Thionville, a French commune of more than 135,000 inhabitants located about 70 kilometres from Luxembourg, where they crossed daily to work.
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Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.