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Wednesday, June 24th, 2020

E.U. May Bar American Travelers as It Reopens Borders, Citing Failures on Virus

Author:     Matina Stevis-Gridneff
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     June 23, 2020 Updated 5:17 p.m. ET
 Link: E.U. May Bar American Travelers as It Reopens Borders, Citing Failures on Virus
Stephan:   The rest of the world appears to be able to see what Trump and the Trumpers cannot: We are doing the worst job in the developed world handling the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result: Americans may be blocked from entering the EU. Hard to believe but true.
Arrivals at the Adolfo Suarez-Barajas airport in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday. European officials are devising a list of ‘safe’ countries to accept visitors from this summer. Credit: Bernat Armangue/AP

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.

European Union countries rushing to revive their economies and reopen their borders after months of coronavirus restrictions are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United States has failed to control the scourge, according to draft lists of acceptable travelers reviewed by The New York Times.

That prospect, which would lump American visitors in with Russians and Brazilians as unwelcome, is a stinging blow to American prestige in the world and a repudiation of President Trump’s handling of the virus in the United States, which has more than 2.3 million cases and upward of 120,000 deaths, more than any […]

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1 Comment

  1. Lauren Raine on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 6:15 am

    It would be embarrousing if it wasn’t so tragic. Meanwhile our “leader” is coming to Yuma, the virtual epicenter of Coronavirus in Arizona, to discuss the very expensive (and useless) construction of his “great wall of trump” there.