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Most EU members have approved an initial list of “safe” non-EU countries - whose citizens will be allowed to travel to the EU/Schengen area as of 1 July, BBC Europe correspondent Katya Adler reports.
The US is not on the list, Australia and Canada are. China would be, if it - in turn - would allow EU travellers access to China. The UK will be dealt with separately.
Access to the EU has been given based on the non-EU country's stated infection rate, alongside their ability to show effective contact-tracing programmes, provide reliable health data and the issue of reciprocity.
But countries on the "safe" list do not need to meet all of the criteria - just some of it.
And the list remains advisory only.
This is because, in times of crisis, border control is the decision of each individual government, rather than the EU - but Germany, who takes up the EU presidency on 1 July - believes the EU needs to be seen to act together over the pandemic.
Individual EU members will not be compelled to admit all the nations on the agreed list, - but they will be expected to deny access to countries who do not make it onto the list.
The list will be published ahead of the 1 July deadline and "regularly updated" thereafter.
"It’s going to be a recognisably fudged EU compromise," writes Adler, on her Twitter feed.
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2020-06-28 08:49:32Z
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