Good news for everyone planning a summer vacation in 2020: The global travel warning still pending due to the coronavirus pandemic is to be lifted for all EU countries from June 15. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (53) announced this on Wednesday (June 3) at a press conference. "I know that this decision raises great hopes and expectations," said the SPD man, who also called for caution at the same time. "Travel warnings are not travel bans, and travel notices are not travel invitations."
The Federal Cabinet's decision: The travel warning should be replaced by travel advice in the future. If necessary, said Maas, these would be adjusted daily to provide "the best information available for each country".
32 countries open their borders – with exceptions
The planned cancellation of the travel warning affects the 27 EU countries as well as Great Britain, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. In principle, it should be possible for the countries to travel as soon as there are no entry bans or large curfews on site. Spain and Norway are initially out of the grid. Because while Spain only wants to open the borders to foreign tourists on July 1, Norway even tends to extend the entry ban until August 20.
Maas also advises against traveling to Great Britain for the time being due to the two-week quarantine that still applies to tourists there. In his speech, the Foreign Minister made it clear that "there will not be a return campaign this summer".