Maintaining a quarantine in England for travelers arriving from France, even vaccinated, is "incomprehensible" and "discriminatory" for the French Secretary of State for European Affairs.
Clément Beaune considers this maintenance of the quarantine "excessive and incomprehensible from a health point of view".
For him, this measure is "not scientifically founded".
"It is a discriminatory decision against the French since all Europeans, even countries which have more difficult health situations than ours under the Delta variant or other are no longer affected by this quarantine", he said. -he regretted on LCI.
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France is indeed an exception since London will exempt European or American travelers vaccinated from quarantine from Monday.
For Clément Beaune, England has excluded France from its green list "in the name of the Beta variant, the famous South African variant, which represents less than 5% of cases in France" and which mainly concerns overseas territories. sea like Reunion, little subject to flows of travelers to the United Kingdom, he lamented.
"Europe should have led a negotiation, perhaps a little harder"
The French Secretary of State also regretted that the borders of the United States remain closed to travelers from the EU while American tourists are once again admitted to Europe.
“At European level, we should have kept the advantage of this reciprocity in our sleeve to better negotiate with the Americans.
Europe as a whole should have conducted negotiations, perhaps a little harder, ”he also regretted on the TF1 group's news channel.
While EU countries have decided to reopen their own borders to Americans, provided they are vaccinated against Covid-19 or test negative, travelers from the Schengen area, the UK and Ireland can no longer enter the United States since March 2020.