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Originally Posted by bonnie25
...I always thought that buying a green card was more expensive that buying frontier insurance?
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Hi Bonnie:
I think you are mixing apples and oranges.
'Frontier Insurance' implies buying insurance at the border entry point of a country that insures you for that particular country only.
'Green Card' insurance implies buying insurance that insures you for a whole basketfull of European Community countries with one single policy.
I don't think that 'Frontier Insurance' (in other words, insurance for one specific country only) is available in any of the countries that participate in the European 'Green Card' scheme.
'Green Card' insurance covers a non-European vehicle (car or moto) in all of the EC countries and a few of the countries that are in the process of integrating into the EC.
'Frontier Insurance' covers vehicles from outside that country (which could include European vehicles) in that one country only.
See the picture of a 'Green Card' document that I posted in post #126 of this discussion ( click here to go directly to that post) , then compare it with all the different 'Frontier Insurance' documents I posted in a separate discussion entitled Balkans Insurance.
When you look at the 'Green Card', note the country codes at the bottom of it. 'Green Card' insurance covers you in all the countries that are not crossed out with an X. If you want to go into the countries crossed out with an X, you have to buy 'Frontier Insurance' at the entry point to EACH of those countries.
Hope that clarifies it for you.
Michael
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