EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Home affairs

Some Member States apply more limited lists than first European list of non-Member States whose citizens may return to EU

Brussels, 01/07/2020 (Agence Europe)

While Member States finalised on Tuesday 30 June a first common list of 15 non-Member States (see EUROPE B12517A8) whose nationals may return to the EU starting 1 July (subject to reciprocity for China), some Member States have already announced that their own list may be pared down.

The joint recommendation framing the list allows them to do so: the list remains indicative and constitutes only the maximum number of third countries that Member States may now include on their own...