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France is in favor of health controls being able to take place at intra-European borders
" to face the danger of the Covid variant, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday.
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There are questions being asked about the borders within the European Union and this will be the subject of the discussions which will take place tomorrow within the framework of the European Council
", recalled Mr. Attal on leaving the Council of ministers.
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France is in favor of health controls being able to take place as soon as possible and that European coordination on this point is moving forward
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Since the start of this epidemic, we have taken measures to ensure controls at our borders
", he also stressed, recalling that "
the external borders of the European Union with France have been closed since the month of March 2020
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Those and those who can join our country from countries outside the European Union are French nationals for almost all of them, and they must perform a negative PCR test before embarking to France, and s 'commit to observing a seven-day isolation
,' he insisted.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Tuesday, two days before an EU council on variants, that a reestablishment of controls between EU countries was not excluded if the situation worsened .
Berlin is particularly worried about the importation of variants of the much more contagious virus, which have appeared in Great Britain and South Africa.
