Following new restrictions on the crown in Europe, the EU calls on its members to implement non-unusual test regulations and abandon general bans in high-risk countries.
As Covid returns across the continent, strict border controls, including general prohibitions, are receding.
Especially with several Western and Southeastern European countries among the most affected. The low-risk Central European and Nordic countries are the last to return to tourism, in some cases entirely.
The fragmentation in which this occurs leads to random and sudden closures across the continent, trap travelers and ruin the holidays.Under confusing and discriminatory new rules, the European Commission unfairly punishes European travellers.
There is little harmony in the new combat of Covid’s borders within the EU and the Schengen countries, and in this there is a wonderful sense of déj vu: to return 15 days before June before the lifting of many border controls.
For starters, some countries are lately employing completely different epidemiological criteria for when and to whom they close their borders.
On Friday, the EU’s executive body, the European Commission, followed a proposal to harmonise traffic restrictions and will now present it to member governments, which will put it into force as they see fit.
The plan includes 4 primary measures, and the tests are the main ones among them:
Could this be a slow way for countries to adopt a technique similar to non-Europeans and open borders to U.S. citizens and others?This will be the subject of history.
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I have 3 decades of experience as a journalist, foreign correspondent and travel writer-photographer.Working for print, virtual and radio media on 4 continents, I am also an experienced hotel journalist and writer of travel guides and cultural histories in Australia, France., Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Borneo.Very on the road between my Parisian and Australian bases, I write for Forbes with a globetrotting attitude and a topicality in travel, culture, hospitality, art and architecture. My hobby is to capture the unique people, situations and occasions I encounter along the way, whether in words or images.I have a bachelor’s degree in professional writing from the University of Canberra, a master’s degree in European journalism from Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg and a member of the Society of American Travel Writers: Love for My Wild Local Island of Tasmania fuels my commitment to sustainable travel and conservation.