{"id":79275,"date":"2021-06-16T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelbaseonline.com\/?p=79275"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:32:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:32:27","slug":"european-union-agrees-to-lift-travel-restrictions-on-american-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelbaseonline.com\/travel\/european-union-agrees-to-lift-travel-restrictions-on-american-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union agrees to lift travel restrictions on American tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"
BRUSSELS \u2014 The European Union is recommending that member countries start lifting restrictions on tourists from the United States.<\/p>\n
EU members agreed Wednesday to add the United States to the list of countries from which restrictions on non-essential travel should be lifted. The move was adopted during a meeting in Brussels of permanent representatives to the 27-nation bloc.<\/p>\n
The recommendation is non-binding, and national governments have authority to require test results or vaccination records and to set other entry conditions.<\/p>\n
Some EU countries have already started allowing in American visitors.<\/p>\n
\u25ba Have COVID vaccine, will travel:<\/strong>\u00a0 These are the countries open to fully vaccinated Americans<\/span><\/p>\n \u25ba\u00a0Europe travel:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Portugal reopens to US travelers with negative COVID-19 tests<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to the U.S., the representatives of EU nations added five other countries to the tourist travel list: North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Lebanon and Taiwan. The European Council updates the list based on epidemiological data. It gets reviewed every two weeks.<\/p>\n The representatives also decided to remove a reciprocity clause for the special administrative regions of China Macau and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n The recommendations are expected to be formalized on Friday.<\/p>\n