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Originally Posted by jonbxx
But let's not forget it is in the UKs interest for EU states to get over the pandemic and open up for business. Every time trade figures come out, some people go 'aha, Brexit!' and others go 'aha, COVID!' If the 'aha COVID!' people are right, then the restoring of normal economic activity in the EU can only be a good thing for the UKs trade figures.
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Little point letting people from the EU into this country, if we still have a large number of people in this country yet unvaccinated.
As things stand, the EU is so large and behind in vaccinating people, that whatever is done it will be a long time before it would be safe for people from the EU to come here.
If pretty much the whole of the UK has been vaccinated, then there would be a lot less risk in allowing people to come here, and for people from the UK to go elsewhere(eg Spain). If X% of the UK were not yet vaccinated, that X% would be at risk from EU visitors, or to the EU if they went there.
One EU leader gets it.
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Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin warned that a ban would be 'a very retrograde step' which would prove counter-productive.
Mr Martin, who could face the prospect of the EU imposing a hard border with Northern Ireland to prevent vaccines entering the UK, said he had made it 'very clear' to fellow leaders he was opposed.
'They're not EU vaccines,' he said. 'These are vaccines paid for by other countries that are manufactured in Europe.'
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