German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday lamented the lack of common rules in the European Union regarding the movement of people as Europe worries about the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday lamented the lack of common rules in the European Union regarding the movement of people as Europe worries about the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19. “I regret that so far we have not reached a common attitude among member states regarding travel rules,” said the head of government at a press conference in Berlin with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. “We now have this situation in Portugal, we could have perhaps avoided it. That’s why we have to work even more,” she added as Lisbon worries about the resurgence of the Covid- 19.
Contrary to the reductions in health measures in several European countries, the Portuguese government had to take restrictive measures by banning entries and exits on weekends in the Lisbon region. Last week, the country recorded the highest daily level of new infections since February. “We have made progress in recent months,” nevertheless qualified Angela Merkel. “But not yet where I would like the European Union to be,” she said as a European summit is being held Thursday and Friday.
For her part, Ursula von der Leyen felt that it was “only a matter of time” before the Delta variant became the dominant variant on the continent. “It is important to continue to vaccinate as quickly as possible,” she added, because it is about leading a race against this more contagious variant. The Twenty-Seven recently agreed to coordinate their measures to facilitate travel within the EU during the summer with (…)
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