The EU and the opening to travelers from third countries

The European continent plans to reopen its borders to travelers from third countries as of July 1. Despite this, the opening process will be limited to a specific group. The reduction of stopovers for passenger transport will benefit some countries

The list will maintain the ban for travelers from many parts of the world, including some as important as: the United States, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Singapore.

The veto will not affect European citizens returning from countries considered at risk.

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However, community sources believe that it is essential to arrive at a common list. This is to prevent each country in the European bloc from unilaterally reopening to countries that have not yet controlled the pandemic. The lack of communication between countries could compromise all the progress made in the control of the pandemic by the European Union.

The European Commission suggests that the reopening is based on a technical methodology and objectives. For example, the number and propensity of new covid cases, testing, monitoring and control measures; or the security and social detachment protocols used in airports and airlines so that data verification is not an easy task.

The criterion proposed by Brussels for the opening to travelers to Europe is that the arrival of travelers from third countries is subject to a percentage similar to the European average, that is, less than twenty new contaminations.

But in nations like Germany the proportion of new contaminations is less than ten and in Spain the number is close to eleven, so the methodology could be even more limited. Outside the European Union, nations like Japan or South Korea show figures similar to the countries of the old continent

The common point could cause several countries to be left off the list, countries like Chile, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. Where the pandemic reaches high figures in which the proportion of cases and 120 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants in fourteen days, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

Passengers from Mexico, the United States or Russia, where the contagion of the virus varies between 60 and 120, so these countries are left out. Community sources say the US, which is the world's largest trading zone with the European Union, is not on the list of safe locations. Brussels also points out that the US has limitations on the arrival of passengers from Europe.

conclusions

Everything indicates that the opening to travelers of the European continent will be limited during the month of July. It is only in the month of August that with the mention of the health crisis caused by the covid-19, the possibility of a greater opening to other countries would be considered.