Europe, through the voice of the European Commissioner responsible for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, calls for "reciprocity" in the United States in terms of welcoming European tourists.
While travelers from America will not be subject to a quarantine, the reverse is not guaranteed, he regretted on RTL's antenna.
The Twenty-Seven agreed on May 19 to allow entry into the EU to travelers from third countries who have received the necessary doses of the Covid vaccines authorized at European level.
Travelers must therefore have been fully vaccinated for at least 14 days, with the two doses of Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca or the single dose of Johnson & Johnson.
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Brussels had proposed that there be no test or quarantine imposed for fully vaccinated people, but these decisions are ultimately the responsibility of each member state.
An interview with his American counterpart
France, which reopens from June 9 the flow of travelers according to a color code, will for example continue to require a negative test (PCR or antigen) for travelers from the United States in particular, that they are vaccinated or not.
Asked about tourism, Mr. Breton indicated that he would have "this evening an interview with [his] American counterpart, the person in charge of American vaccines, to specifically discuss this question" of the reception of Americans in Europe, and vice- versa.
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“We already welcome American tourists from the moment they are vaccinated, from the moment they have had the two doses and that we waited for the 15-day deadline.
I insist that we want reciprocity, and I will speak about this later, because for the moment we still have quarantine in the United States ”for the Europeans, declared the European commissioner.
Regarding China, Mr. Breton said: “we are looking at the evolution of the pandemic.
There is also reciprocity.
It is indeed necessary that from the moment when we welcome Chinese tourists, there is the same reciprocity, in a comparable situation ”.