Europe Evaluates

If you’re anything like me, you probably can’t wait until you’re able to take your next holiday which based on news circulating today, this may be possible by next month.

The European Commission is proposing to reopen its borders to fully vaccinated tourists as long as their jabs are approved by the EU and to those visiting from countries with low infection rates for nonessential travel.

The WHO and European Medicines Agency have cleared the following vaccines AstraZeneca/Oxford, Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. Additionally, the EU’s executive body stated, “the Commission proposes to raise, in line with the evolution of the epidemiological situation in the EU, the threshold related to the number of new COVID-19 cases used to determine a list of countries from which all travel should be permitted. This should allow the Council to expand this list.”

Now the plan is to get 27 member states to coordinate their policy agreement. There have been ongoing conversations about a Digital Green Certificate but who knows if that will take course yet. If it does, it would make things easier to travel within EU member states and for the authorities to determine who should be allowed in without quarantine or a negative PCR test.

The EU member states will start their discussion on Tuesday 03 May. Yet Greece already released that they will reopen to tourists on 15 May. Time to get excited!