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**Damien** · 30-12-2021, 20:56

Ironically it was probably the EU who told them to knock this off as it probably breaks the point of Schengen. It's not up to France to police who drives into Spain for example and the point of Schengen is they can go via France.

It should be noted that this was them extending their COVID restrictions rather than a new rule for now. This (now revoked) change is a bit of a red herring because it was a massive loophole in that existing restriction which was probably causing them headaches. Those COVID restrictions are almost certainly about politics though. It doesn't make sense that Americans can visit without a compelling reason (so long as they're vaccinated) and we can't.

They should just ditch that pointless rule.

And we should ditch the isolate + Day 2 PCR to come here.

30-12-2021, 20:56	#3657
Damien Remoaner Cable Forum Team Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 32,852	Re: Britain outside the EU Ironically it was probably the EU who told them to knock this off as it probably breaks the point of Schengen. It's not up to France to police who drives into Spain for example and the point of Schengen is they can go via France. It should be noted that this was them extending their COVID restrictions rather than a new rule for now. This (now revoked) change is a bit of a red herring because it was a massive loophole in that existing restriction which was probably causing them headaches. Those COVID restrictions are almost certainly about politics though. It doesn't make sense that Americans can visit without a compelling reason (so long as they're vaccinated) and we can't. They should just ditch that pointless rule. And we should ditch the isolate + Day 2 PCR to come here.