Europe

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name: Europe slug: europe version: 1.0.0 homepage: https://clawic.com/skills/europe description: Navigate Europe for travel, relocation, study, remote work, and cross-border life with bloc logic, country fit, rights, timing, and practical execution. changelog: "Initial release with a Europe-wide framework for travel, moving, work, study, and cross-border planning." metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"🌍","requires":{"bins":[],"config":["~/europe/"]},"os":["linux","darwin","win32"],"configPaths":["~/europe/"]}}

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When to Use

User needs Europe-specific guidance that generic travel or relocation advice usually gets wrong: choosing the right country or city, understanding EU vs Schengen vs eurozone rules, planning multi-country trips, moving, studying, working remotely, handling healthcare, or operating across borders.

This skill should activate for seven modes: visiting Europe, choosing a base in Europe, moving to Europe, living in Europe, studying in Europe, working remotely across Europe, and operating a Europe-facing business or freelance setup.

Architecture

This skill works statelessly for one-off Europe questions. If the user wants continuity across sessions, memory lives in ~/europe/. If ~/europe/ does not exist, read setup.md, explain planned local storage in plain language, and ask for confirmation before creating files. See memory-template.md for structure.

~/europe/
└── memory.md     # Nationality, mobility rights, target countries, timelines, constraints, and open loops

Quick Reference

| Topic | File | |-------|------| | Setup guide | setup.md | | Memory template | memory-template.md | | Europe blocs, rights layers, and country-group logic | europe-basics-and-blocs.md | | Macroregions, corridors, and cluster tradeoffs | regional-corridors-and-country-clusters.md | | Choosing countries, cities, and base strategy | choosing-countries-and-cities.md | | Entry, visas, residence pathways, and right-to-stay logic | entry-visas-and-right-to-stay.md | | Schengen math, borders, and 90/180 traps | schengen-border-and-90-180.md | | Move-in sequence and settling checklist | moving-and-settling.md | | Housing, banking, SIMs, utilities, and local admin | housing-banking-phone-and-admin.md | | Jobs, universities, qualifications, and business setup | work-study-and-qualifications.md | | Tax residence, social security, and cross-border paperwork | taxes-social-security-and-residency.md | | Public healthcare, EHIC/GHIC logic, and private cover | healthcare-and-insurance.md | | Rail, flights, ferries, buses, and passenger rights | transport-and-passenger-rights.md | | Multi-country routing, road trips, and Europe pace design | rail-flights-and-road-trips.md | | Eurozone reality, cards, cash, and everyday payments | money-payments-and-eurozone.md | | Remote work, digital nomads, and split-country life | remote-work-and-digital-nomads.md | | Seasonal stays, second homes, and part-year Europe life | seasonal-living-and-second-homes.md | | Families, children, schools, and student tradeoffs | family-students-and-children.md | | Scams, emergencies, 112, and consumer protection | safety-scams-and-consumer-rights.md | | Climate, shoulder seasons, and event timing | weather-seasons-and-trip-timing.md | | Weekend trips, interrail-style loops, and short-break logic | weekend-trips-and-multicountry-routes.md | | Official sources map | sources.md |

Core Rules

1. Europe Is Not One Operating System

Separate Europe the continent from the EU, Schengen Area, eurozone, EEA, UK, Switzerland, Balkans, and microstates.

Never answer a Europe question as if all countries share the same visa, tax, bank, health, or border rules.

Start by identifying which legal bloc and which country or corridor actually controls the answer.

2. Classify the User Before Giving Advice

Decide which Europe mode applies first: visitor, future resident, current resident, student, worker, remote worker, family household, or operator.

Then anchor the answer to nationality, passport, visa status, target country, intended length of stay, and whether the user is moving between countries or just visiting.

If that context is missing, ask before pretending Europe is interchangeable.

3. Separate Stable Framework from Volatile Execution

Bloc definitions, 90/180 math, passenger-right concepts, and broad routing logic are stable enough to explain.

Visa thresholds, local registration steps, fees, opening-hour quirks, health enrollment steps, and tax details can change.

For volatile topics, explain the framework first and then verify with official current sources before giving precise compliance steps.

4. Country Fit Beats Bucket Lists

Europe planning fails when users pick countries from aesthetics alone.

Compare countries and cities using legal access, language load, weather, housing stress, healthcare depth, transport quality, salary reality, and social fit together.

Use choosing-countries-and-cities.md before endorsing a base.

5. Cross-Border Friction Is the Real Difficulty

Border rights, tax residence, social security, roaming, banking, school systems, driving rules, and healthcare access can all change when the user crosses countries.

Treat Europe as a network of connected but non-identical systems.

When the user is splitting time across countries, lead with what breaks at the boundary.

6. Deliver Sequences, Not Vibes

Europe users often need a path like "choose country -> confirm right to stay -> secure housing -> register locally -> fix bank/SIM/health -> then optimize lifestyle."

For trips, answer with transfer logic, reservation deadlines, and fallback routes.

For moves, answer in the form "do this before arrival / in week one / in month one / after stabilizing."

7. Respect the Difference Between Tourist and Resident Advice

A city that is great for a 4-day trip can be bad for long-term housing, bureaucracy, or income fit.

Do not use tourist-season impressions to answer residency, schooling, or work questions.

Do not use residency-oriented cost assumptions to answer short-break or interrail questions.

8. Use Official Europe-Level Sources Before Blogs

Prefer Your Europe, the EU Immigration Portal, EURES, Europass, national government portals, Eurostat, and passenger-rights pages.

Use private guides only as secondary context, never as the final authority for legal or rights-sensitive topics.

If a country-specific official page is required, say so clearly instead of improvising.

9. Before Writing Local Memory, Ask

If continuity would help, explain exactly what would be stored in ~/europe/.

Ask for confirmation before creating or changing local files.

Do not save passport numbers, tax IDs, banking credentials, or full street addresses unless the user explicitly asks for that behavior.

Common Traps

Treating Europe as if EU membership, Schengen membership, and euro use are the same thing.

Recommending a move path without checking the user's nationality and right to stay.

Suggesting multi-country trips that look short on a map but waste time in transfers.

Mixing tourist affordability with long-term housing and tax reality.

Assuming roaming, healthcare, or consumer rights apply equally in every European country.

Giving digital-nomad or residency advice without asking whether the user wants legal residence, tax residence, or just a long visit.

Ignoring language load, local admin friction, and housing inventory until too late.

External Endpoints

| Endpoint | Data Sent | Purpose | |----------|-----------|---------| | https://europa.eu/youreurope/ | Page requests only unless user explicitly wants country-specific rights guidance | EU citizen rights, travel, residence, work, health, consumer protection | | https://immigration-portal.ec.europa.eu/ | Nationality and target-country context only if user asks for non-EU residence or work guidance | Non-EU migration pathways by country | | https://eures.europa.eu/ | Country, language, and profession context only if user asks for job-market guidance | Jobs, living and working conditions | | https://europass.europa.eu/ | Qualification or CV context only if user asks for recognition or study/work prep | Skills, qualifications, and CV framework | | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/ | Page requests only | EU law and regulation reference | | https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat | Page requests only unless user asks for comparative data pulls | Europe-wide comparative statistics | | https://europa.eu/112 | Country or location only if user asks for emergency readiness | Europe emergency-number framework | | https://www.eccnet.eu/ | Country and consumer-case context only if user asks for purchase or travel-rights help | Consumer protection and dispute support | | https://europa.eu/solvit/ | Country and rights-problem context only if user asks for EU-rights problem solving | Cross-border rights assistance |

No other data is sent externally.

Security & Privacy

Data that may leave your machine:

Public page requests to official EU and national portals

Country, nationality, residency, profession, or route context only when the user asks for location-specific guidance

Data that stays local:

Mobility goals, target countries, trip or move timelines, family constraints, and open tasks in ~/europe/

This skill does NOT:

Submit visa, tax, residency, or university forms on the user's behalf without explicit instruction

Store passport numbers, tax IDs, bank credentials, or payment information in local memory by default

Assume country-specific rules when the answer depends on nationality, right-to-stay, or local registration

Trust

By using this skill, details such as nationality, target country, and cross-border route context may be checked against official European or national-government websites when the user asks for precise guidance.

Only install if you trust those public services with that lookup context.

Related Skills

Install with clawhub install if user confirms:

travel — General trip planning and itinerary structure

booking — Reservation workflows and confirmation hygiene

car-rental — Better cross-border rental and handoff planning

health-insurance — Deeper insurance-plan comparison support

english — Language support for bookings, admin, and fallback communication

Feedback

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