Lifting On US Travelers

From the DW:

“EU set to lift entry restrictions for all US travelers”

European Union countries have reached an agreement to ease entry restrictions for travelers from the United States and seven other nations and territories, officials said Wednesday. The whitelist, which permits nonessential travel from outside the bloc, will now reportedly be expanded to include Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Lebanon, the United States, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong.

The change means people from those places should have an easier time entering the EU. However, it will still be up to individual member states to decide whether to impose additional requirements, such as a negative COVID test or mandatory quarantine period.   Some EU countries have already started welcoming American visitors.

When will the change apply? Wednesday's decision is expected to be formally adopted by the end of the week, according to a Portuguese EU presidency spokesperson cited by German press agency dpa. It was not clear when the relaxed travel rules would come into force. The EU's 27 member states, with the exception of Ireland, banned nonessential travel at the start of the pandemic in an effort to stop the coronavirus from spreading. Non-EU countries Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Iceland also took part in the ban.

^ It seems that slowly, but surely the EU will reopen to US Citizens. ^

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-set-to-lift-entry-restrictions-for-all-us-travelers/a-57915111