section_path: Infrastructure/Transport/Border crossings
section_name: Border crossings
paragraph_text: Border crossings
  
  Basel is located at the meeting point of France, Germany, and Switzerland; because it sits on the Swiss national border and is beyond the Jura Mountains, many within the Swiss military reportedly believe that the city is indefensible during wartime. It has numerous road and rail crossings between Switzerland and the other two countries. With Switzerland joining the Schengen Area on 12 December 2008, immigration checks were no longer carried out at the crossings. However, Switzerland did not join the European Union Customs Union (though it did join the EU Single Market) and customs checks are still conducted at or near the crossings.
  
  France-Switzerland (from east to west)
  
  Germany-Switzerland (clockwise, from north to south)
  
  Additionally there are many footpaths and cycle tracks crossing the border between Basel and Germany.