The EU intends to restore free entry from Ukraine
EU ambassadors have allowed Ukraine to be included in the list of third countries from where entry is allowed.
According to the EP, Radio Svoboda correspondent Rikard Jozwiak reports.
"Today, the EU ambassadors decided to add Ukraine to the recommended list of third countries for which restrictions on travel to the EU should be lifted. The list should be officially updated tomorrow. Moldova, Armenia, and Azerbaijan are already in it," he wrote.
The EU last updated its list of "safe" countries on July 1. It then included Canada, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Jordan, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
The criteria for determining third countries for which they lift current travel restrictions were updated on 20 May. They cover the epidemiological situation and the overall response to COVID-19, as well as the reliability of available information and data sources. Reciprocity also needs to be taken into account in each case.
According to the formula used by the EU, the country needs to have less than 100 cases of new diseases in 14 days per 100 thousand population.
Schengen-associated countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland) are also involved in this recommendation.
