The heads of government of the European Union agree.
The EU vaccination certificate should come.
For the time being, however, it is only available as a medical document.
The subject of
vaccination records
and the associated privileges for vaccinated people is currently the subject of heated debate.
Foreign Minister
Heiko Maas
recently
restarted the debate when he brought up possible
special rights
for
vaccinated people
.
Should immunized people be allowed to go to the cinema, restaurants or the bar next door again?
This question is currently of concern to lawyers, politicians and medical professionals alike.
EU summit on the Corona strategy: Are there any advantages for vaccination card holders?
But the fact is that there will soon be an EU vaccination certificate.
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
and the other heads of government of the EU member states agreed on this in a four-and-a-half hour video meeting.
For the time being, an
EU vaccination certificate
will only be available as a
medical document
.
Means: It is a kind of certificate that the vaccinee
receives
after the
corona vaccination
.
It is still unclear at EU level whether there should be
advantages
for
vaccinated people
.
Southern European holiday countries such as Spain and Portugal in particular hope that travel will soon be easier again.
The current rule is that travelers have to be in quarantine in many countries.
Vacation trips are therefore not recommended in Germany either.
The tourism countries in particular are hit hard by the travel restrictions in the Corona crisis *.
All the greater is the hope that the
corona vaccinations
and an
EU vaccination certificate
will soon make traveling easier.
EU summit on the Corona strategy: This is what the EU Commission proposes
The fact is that there are
still many question marks
on the subject of the
EU vaccination pass
and
benefits
for
vaccinated people
.
Regardless of the debate, Commission President
Ursula von der Leyen
calls for
more
corona tests
within the European Union.
In particular, the new mutations of the corona virus are causing the head of the EU Commission to worry.
The President of the Commission also spoke about borders.
As the
Bild-Zeitung
reports, von der Leyen proposes a
“dark red” marking
for
hotspot zones
within the
EU
.
Travel restrictions, as well as a test and quarantine obligation, could come into force in such regions.
Irrespective of this, the President of the Commission proposes
to impose
a general
test requirement
for
travelers
from
non-EU countries
.
And what about travel bans?
EU summit on Corona strategy: will there be another travel ban?
Belgium in particular had
repeatedly brought
travel bans
in the
EU
into play.
After the virtual meeting of the heads of government, the Commission President made it clear that
travel bans remained a
matter for the federal states.
In other words: Each member state of the EU decides
itself
on possible
border
closings. Regardless of this, von der Leyen advises
against
travel abroad that is not absolutely necessary.
+
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen advises against unnecessary trips abroad.
© Francisco Seco / dpa / Pool AP
The heads of government of the member states also agree that the
internal market
within the EU must continue to function despite the rampant coronavirus pandemic.
The topic of
vaccines
was also
discussed
in the virtual
EU summit
on the further
corona strategy
.
All heads of government agreed that
vaccines
should be delivered as quickly as possible, writes Austria's Chancellor
Sebastian Kurz
after the meeting on Twitter.
EU summit on the corona strategy: Commission names ambitious vaccination targets
Kurz assumes that AstraZeneca's corona vaccine
will be approved
in the
EU
in the coming week
.
The Commission has an ambitious goal.
As the
Bild-Zeitung
reports, around 70 percent of EU citizens should be
vaccinated
against the
corona
virus
by summer 2021 at the latest
.
According to the commission, 80 percent of the over 80-year-olds as well as the nursing and health staff should be immunized by March 2021.
It is questionable whether it will actually go that fast.
Recently, there have been repeated delays in delivery of the corona vaccine - also in Germany.
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