Americans are about to be expelled from Europe, as the EU examines its list of countries invited to the continent.
The list was first announced at the end of June, as the EU is ready to lift the ban in 14 foreign countries from 1 July. Since then, the lers of these countries have been welcome in many Schengen countries.
Border restrictions are reviewed every 14 days and officials have met in Brussels ever since to discuss them. Official news is expected at any time.
No new countries are added to the list, Bloomberg reports. In fact, two, Serbia and Montenegro, were abandoned. The EU recommends that external borders remain closed to Americans “and to the fullest to other foreigners” for at least fifteen days. This is amid fear of a coronavirus wave at the moment.
“The envoys of the member governments in Brussels asked the 15 countries on Tuesday, adding Canada, Japan, South Korea and China, whose citizens were given the soft green two weeks ago to the EU,” the authorities said on anonymity status.
“Diplomats also shortened the list to thirteen states by cutting Serbia and Montenegro as a result of new infections there.”
This is the list of welcome countries: Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Georgia, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay.
EU officials have shown several major media outlets now that Europe’s borders will remain closed to US visitors. As planned. The United States does not even on the table, according to Reuters, “given the strong accumulation of coronavirus cases.”
This is the recommendation that the EU will give to its members, who have the final say at its borders. Some like Croatia have already taken their own direction on the ban. Welcomes travelers to Americans and other countries that are on the EU security list.
Similarly, others still refuse to open their borders to third-country nationals, despite the EU recommendation. “Hungary and several neighbouring countries have refused to reopen the borders of the 14 non-Schengen countries,” le Monde reports.
The list of non-European countries whose citizens may be in the EU “is already under threat,” Le Monde said yesterday. “The pandemic scenario in some of the countries on the original list (Australia, Algeria, Morocco, Serbia, etc.) will necessarily lead to a review of the pandemic.”
In this case, it appears that only two countries are harmful enough to be repressed. This is Serbia and Montenegro due to its peak infections with Covid-19. Serbia is one of the few European countries whose borders are recently opened to American travelers. EU diplomats approved a proposal through Germany to exclude the non-EU Balkan couple “due to the spread of infections,” officials told Reuters.
The resolve to allow other, even safe, Covid countries in, is equally important, given that some EU countries are experiencing a new spike in infections.
“The general temperament in the room is to exercise the utmost caution, because there is fear about the evolution” of the pandemic,” a European diplomat told Politician as the assembly unfolded.
The updated list should be published “in coming hours or days” Reuters reports. My request to the European Commission for clarification on the list has not yet been answered.
EU countries also discussed the removal of Algeria and Morocco from the list due to an accumulation in Covid-19 cases, according to Reuters. Most members opposed such an initiative. But France, which has advocated maximum for the removal of Algeria from the list, plans to take national measures to block the arrival of Algerians.
According to WHO data, either country appears to be within the EU threshold in terms of Covid instances to be included in the list. For its first list, the EU used a reference of 16 instances consisting of 100,000 citizens to allow foreign travellers in.
According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, this EU average rose to 8% in the two weeks before 30 June. In the EU, the Schengen countries and the UK. After falling to 15.3, it increased to 16.4 consistent with 100,000.
In the United States, on the other hand, the average case rate consistent with another 100,000 people is 1042, ranging from 81 in Hawaii to 2636 in New York.
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