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In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, on 16 March 2020 the European Commission issued a recommendation to all EU and Schengen member states to introduce a temporary restriction on the entry of third-country nationals (i.e. travellers who are not EEA/Swiss citizens and family members with the right of free movement) to the Schengen Area for non ...
The Swiss government on Wednesday said it was expanding its border controls to include all countries in the Schengen open border zone to help protect people from coronavirus. The move comes after ...
The list was updated, in principle, every two weeks. Several countries (Algeria, Canada, Georgia, Jordan, Morocco, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia and Uruguay) have been removed from the EU designated COVID-19 safe countries list since it was introduced on 30 June 2020, and no new country was ever added to that list.
The travel ban did not extend to all countries in Europe (excepting the U.K.), but only to the 26 countries in the Schengen Area. [10] [12] The ban did not include trade and cargo. [13] The health insurance industry was only waiving copayments for Covid-19 testing, not for treatments. [14]
Warnings against travel abroad from the UK have been issued for countries including Lebanon, Iran and Russia All of the countries currently on the Foreign Office ‘do not travel’ list Skip to ...
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Countries of the Schengen area require non-EU passports to be less than 10 years old upon entry. [17] A number of holders of British passports, which until September 2018 could be issued with a validity period of up to 10 years and nine months if the previous passport was not expired, were unable to travel to the EU subsequent to Brexit due to this restriction.
Nine EU countries—Italy, France, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and Luxembourg—called for "corona bonds" (a type of eurobond) to help their countries to recover from the epidemic, on 25 March. Their letter stated, "The case for such a common instrument is strong, since we are all facing a symmetric external shock."