Germany opened the borders Tomorrow the big Opening of Austria

Austria lifts on Tuesday and is due to the Corona pandemic has imposed travel restrictions for the majority of European countries. Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) is on Tuesday also, his counterpart of the Eastern neighbouring countries.

The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (Tomáš Petrícek), Slovakia (Ivan Korcok), Slovenia (Anže Logar) and Hungary (Péter Szijjártó,) to be personally located in Vienna. “After foreign Minister Schallenberg has led in the past three months, an intensive and very constructive exchange of views with his counterparts of the neighbouring States, it is now – having the freedom to travel is restored, even to a personal Meeting of five foreign Ministers to come,” said his spokesperson for the APA on Monday.

In addition to talks about the experience of the intense neighbourly cooperation in the past few weeks, to see where the perspectives discussed in the foreign policy cooperation with neighbouring countries.

Ceremonial Opening in Germany

Austria had opened its borders to one and a half weeks for all the neighbouring countries to Italy. Germany and Switzerland continued to this step, as originally planned, on Monday. At the bilateral border between the two countries, the restoration of freedom of travel fee was to be celebrated jointly. Between Konstanz and Kreuzlingen, for example, under much applause, Bravo, and “the wall must have been”Call the viewers of the metal elements to border security. The big rush of shopping tourists from remained for the time being, but.

Also, the Opening of the German-French border, was committed on Monday solemnly. In the Saarland, eat the inhabitants as a symbol for a two-Meter-long “border of bread”, to the end of the three-month Corona-celebrate controls. In many places along the 450-kilometre-long German-French border of flowers and flags were also to see.

A solemn ceremony there was also on the Italian-Slovenian border. The mayor of Gorizia (Gorizia) in Italy and Nova Gorica (New Gorizia), in Slovenia, severed on Monday, the Band with the inscription “stop”, the drivers so far, the Italian car had blocked the entry to Slovenia. Then the mayor embraced.

In Austrians, no restrictions apply starting Tuesday at the port of entry from almost all the European States. For a total of 31 European States, it will apply from midnight no entry restrictions. Also, the trip to and from Italy is again possible. For the Northern Italian Region of Lombardy, a partial travel warning remains true, however.

The circulation of a negative corona tests, or a Quarantine requirement still exists at the entry of the Balkan countries Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Northern Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. The same is true for the three EU countries-Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, as well as for Britain and white Russia (Belarus), Russia and Turkey. For these seven countries with a travel warning of the foreign Ministry shall continue to apply.

A travel warning allows free cancellation of booked travels. A trip should be taken, nevertheless, could travellers in case of problems, service, work or legal consequences, or in the case of a consular assistance claims threaten. When traveling, the principle applies that “sense” should be used, such as the sound mountain it had formulated. Sweden, where there were significantly less restrictions to combat the pandemic than in the other EU countries, surpasses as the only member of the EU, the upper limit of a total of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week. In the UK, Ireland and Malta for a two-week quarantine after the entry is still required.

With Spain lifting the travel restrictions that 1 was in the past. July target, if the country opens up, in turn, the limits. On Sunday, the Spanish government decided, however, the opening of the border on the 21. June is preferable. Also in the Federal government will consider an earlier lifting of entry restrictions, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the APA said on Monday on request. The Situation would be assessed on an ongoing basis.

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The EU Commission presented on Monday, meanwhile, is a platform for travel information on the Internet. “Re-open the EU” should allow a “safe restart” for the freedom of travel and tourism in Europe and offers to each EU member country information about the Situation on the borders, available transport, travel restrictions and safety regulations such as Wearing of masks, said the Brussels authority.