These three countries, according to preliminary data, were not included in the list of States where from 1 July can allow entry into the Eurozone. The restrictions can be lifted for about 50 countries, including China.
the Power of the Union to discuss the list of countries for which July 1, will ban entry to the EU as a weakening of the measures imposed due pandemic coronavirus. In the preliminary version of list of no USA, Brazil and Russia, writes The New York Times, citing a draft document.
In the first half of June, the European Commission has already published the list of countries from which recommended to allow entry from 1 July. The list includes Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and North Macedonia. The decision in EC explained by the fact that in these countries the situation of coronavirus is better or at least not worse than in the EU. The European Commission recommended to regularly revise the list in accordance with data on spread of coronavirus.
However, while the negotiators do not consider the possibility of lifting the restrictions with the United States, Brazil and Russia — the three countries with the largest number of detected cases of the disease.
in compiling both lists, the authorities of the EU was based on data on incidence in countries. The benchmark was the average number of new infections in the last 14 days per 100 thousand people. In the EU the average figure is 16. The first option of the list consists of 47 countries, where the incidence rate is lower than the EU average. Other includes 54 countries have included States where the incidence is slightly worse than the EU average, but within the 20 new cases per 100 thousand people.
“President trump and his Brazilian and Russian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Hair Bolsonaro, according to critics, was followed the same way in the fight against the epidemic, which left all three countries in the same bad position: they were from the beginning a dismissive attitude to the crisis, slow to respond to scientific advice and as a result, faced with a sharp increase in the number of new cases, while other parts of the world, especially Europe and Asia, gradually managed to put the infection under control,” — says the publication.
the ban on the entry of U.S. NYT also links with political reasons — Donald trump in the spring imposed a ban on entry into the United States from the European Union, and despite the fact that in European countries the epidemic was brought under control, still the ban is not removed.
In early June Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on partial lifting of restrictions on entry to Russia and departure from the country. Now the Russians allowed to leave the country thenonly in order to care for overseas relatives to undergo treatment, as well as in connection with work or studies.
the Ban on entering the Schengen area and the European Union was introduced on March 17 and was extended twice. In addition, were closed internal borders of the Union, but in may, European countries began to gradually lift restrictions on movement within the EU.
President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has managed to wrest from epidemic time to prepare for the shot. “The epidemic began at the outer contour. Our lines were immediately tightened sanitary protection. And they played a role, made it possible to deflect the first blow, delay the epidemic peak her on one-two of the month. And so, back in February — early March to win precious time, and therefore to do everything possible to save tens of thousands — tens of thousands of lives,” — said the head of state.
