European nations have offered to open their borders to British holidaymakers this summer – but only if the UK drops its 14-day coronavirus quarantine. Popular tourist destinations like Spain, Italy and Greece have said that they would be willing to allow UK visitors in to help their under-threat tourism industries. But they insisted that any … Read more
New cars built in Europe are likely to become £1,500 more expensive on average for UK customers next year due to 10% post-Brexit import tariffs Department for International Trade today announced its post-Brexit tariff regime The UK is set to default to World Trade Organisation terms on 1 January 2021 This means European-built cars imported … Read more
Reopening schools across Europe has not caused a spike in coronavirus cases. Evidence from 22 EU states that have restored classes suggests little or no risk to pupils, teachers or families. The revelation piles pressure on unions resisting plans to send younger children back from June 1. The National Education Union yesterday even claimed it … Read more
Spain is planning to welcome tourists back in ‘late June’, a government minister said today after Italy announced that its borders would re-open on June 3. Transport minister Jose Luis Abalos said the current two-week quarantine for foreign visitors would be phased out when travel restrictions are lifted within Spain. ‘From late June, we’ll start the … Read more
The choice of Matera as 2019’s European City of Culture will have astonished Italians of a certain age, although not those who have ever visited it. Fifty years ago, the city was designated the ‘national shame’ of Italy, embodying everything that was wrong with the impoverished south. But it was not true then and is little more … Read more
Britain’s plan to exempt France from 14-day travel quarantine must be applied to EVERY EU member state, the European Commission warns On Sunday the UK agreed that French travellers to UK would not face quarantine Every other member of the EU must quarantine for two weeks upon arrival in UK European Commission says UK must … Read more
The European flag quiz that only 10% of Britons could score full marks on (with millennials performing worst) – see how many YOU can match to the correct country Generation Z (18-25) performed the best, with an average of 12 out of 15 Baby boomers scored 10 out of 15 on average, and Generation X … Read more
French athletes believe they caught coronavirus at the World Military Games in Wuhan in October, 20 days before the first recorded case in China. It comes after it was revealed that Frenchman Amirouche Hammar, 43, had been infected with COVID-19 outside Paris as early as December. The hospital where Hammar was treated for chest pains … Read more
European leaders have pledged to raise billions of pounds to help find a vaccine and treatments for Covid-19 as part of an ‘international alliance’ fighting the disease. An online pledging conference due to be held on Monday will aim to pull in 7.5billion euro (£6.6billion) in funding to support the global response to the coronavirus … Read more
Budget airline Wizz Air has become the first to restore routes from London to European destinations, with planes scheduled to take off as early as next week. Flights will be leaving London Luton airport for Tenerife, Lisbon, Budapest and other major cities from May 1. Seats are priced as low as £16.99. The continent-wide coronavirus … Read more