EU leaders express their anger to Greece & other southern sunspots

Saturday, June 26, 2021

Recently, Greece and other southern sunspots encountered a sudden rage at a European Union summit for permitting tourists with unauthorized vaccines, with Emmanuel Macron, the French President, insisting member states should be consistent in only recognizing shots approved for use in the bloc. Macron while speaking after a two-day summit in Brussels, mainly aimed tourist-reliant Greece and other countries and made them cautious of the urgency to pick the best vaccines particularly against the more contagious delta variant. He explained that he was “perfectly aligned” with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in terms of caution, vigilance and European coordination.

“We must all recognize the same vaccines, the ones which have been authorized by the European Medicines Agency,” Macron told reporters. “They are all fully-efficient, we know that, including against the latest variants, and the delta variant. The other vaccines don’t have the same degree of visibility, especially on this latest variant.”

For visitors, both Greece and Cyprus have waived their quarantine requirements, who can produce a proof of vaccination with Russia’s Sputnik and China’s Sinopharm shots, neither of which has been authorized by EMA.

All EU countries will accept visitors from other member states from July 1st with the EU Digital Covid Certificate. It will be issued free of charge in digital or paper format. It would certify that the holders have been inoculated against the coronavirus, recovered from the illness with a negative test. Macron explained that EU governments must make sure of good coordination in forthcoming weeks.

“This coordination is als o necessary for our rules to be harmonized on opening toward third countries,” said Macron, adding this is key for the EU certificate to be “fully efficient.”

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