Already on Friday, the ambassadors of the 27 EU member states agreed on a 14-point list of countries to which EU citizens will be able to travel without restrictions from 1 July. However, as national governments still could not unite on a single procedure, the Croatian Presidency initiated a procedure of written approval by a qualified majority.
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So which countries are on the list? Coronavirus-safe countries include Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay. As the News List wrote last week, people in the United States, Russia or Brazil will be unlucky.
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The Czech Republic then narrowed the list to eight countries. These are Serbia, Montenegro, Thailand, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. In today’s interview for Radiožurnál, Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Smolek said that the priority for the Czechs was to include the countries of the Western Balkans, specifically Montenegro and Serbia. That worked. “Their citizens will be able to travel to us without restrictions,” he said, adding that in the future the Czechia would like to expand the list to include other countries in the region.
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It should be updated every 14 days. This deadline is important because the main criterion for inclusion in the list of safe countries was the proportion of newly infected coivid-19 in the last 14 days per 100 thousand inhabitants. In addition, experts also assessed predictions of pandemic developments in individual countries.
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Approval of the Union list by qualified majority means that representatives of more than 55 percent of states, representing more than 65 percent of the Union’s population, must raise their hands in the proposal.
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While the USA, Russia and Brazil do not meet the set criteria, in the case of China, the Union has decided to allow its citizens to enter its territory, but only if Beijing reciprocates in this way. “The Czechs do not expect China to be in the first wave,” Smolek told Radiožurnál.
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The issuance of a “green” list serves the governments of the 27 only as a recommendation, because the protection of their own borders remains within the competence of nation states. Despite the recommendations from Brussels, some of them still keep border crossings with some EU states closed – for example, it is not possible to travel to Sweden or Great Britain without restriction from the Czech Republic.
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Traveling abroad From July 1, you can go out into the world. Travel to these countries will be without restrictions
Already on Friday, the ambassadors of the 27 EU member states agreed on a 14-point list of countries to which EU citizens will be able to travel without restrictions from 1 July. However, as national governments still could not unite on a single procedure, the Croatian Presidency initiated a procedure of written approval by a qualified majority.
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So which countries are on the list? Coronavirus-safe countries include Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay. As the News List wrote last week, people in the United States, Russia or Brazil will be unlucky.
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The Czech Republic then narrowed the list to eight countries. These are Serbia, Montenegro, Thailand, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. In today’s interview for Radiožurnál, Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Smolek said that the priority for the Czechs was to include the countries of the Western Balkans, specifically Montenegro and Serbia. That worked. “Their citizens will be able to travel to us without restrictions,” he said, adding that in the future the Czechia would like to expand the list to include other countries in the region.
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It should be updated every 14 days. This deadline is important because the main criterion for inclusion in the list of safe countries was the proportion of newly infected coivid-19 in the last 14 days per 100 thousand inhabitants. In addition, experts also assessed predictions of pandemic developments in individual countries.
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Approval of the Union list by qualified majority means that representatives of more than 55 percent of states, representing more than 65 percent of the Union’s population, must raise their hands in the proposal.
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While the USA, Russia and Brazil do not meet the set criteria, in the case of China, the Union has decided to allow its citizens to enter its territory, but only if Beijing reciprocates in this way. “The Czechs do not expect China to be in the first wave,” Smolek told Radiožurnál.
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The issuance of a “green” list serves the governments of the 27 only as a recommendation, because the protection of their own borders remains within the competence of nation states. Despite the recommendations from Brussels, some of them still keep border crossings with some EU states closed – for example, it is not possible to travel to Sweden or Great Britain without restriction from the Czech Republic.
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