Excerpt from Breaking Travel News

The European Union commission has unveiled plans to ease restrictions on non-essential travel into the region this summer.

Officials plan to admit travellers from countries with “a good epidemiological situation,” as well as those who have had two doses of an EU-approved vaccine.

At the same time, the emergence of coronavirus variants of concern calls for continued vigilance, a statement said.

Therefore as counter-balance, the commission has proposed a new ‘emergency brake’ mechanism, to be coordinated at EU level and which would limit the risk of such variants entering the EU.

This will allow countries to act quickly and temporarily limit to a strict minimum all travel from affected countries for the time needed to put in place appropriate sanitary measures.

“Time to revive EU tourism industry and for cross-border friendships to rekindle - safely,” EU commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, tweeted.

The bloc has already announced plans for a digital certificate, which would cover anyone who is either vaccinated against Covid-19, has a negative test or has recently recovered.