The European Union added Moldova to the “green list”, and our citizens might be allowed to freely enter the EU countries.
According to Schengen Visa Info, in particular, the EU Council has expanded the "green list" to 11 countries that have been recognized as epidemiologically safe, and their citizens will now be able to freely enter the EU member states. The decision was approved on June 30 during a regular meeting of EU ambassadors. The updated list includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Canada, Jordan, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It also included so far Albania, Australia, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Rwanda, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States. All of the 11 countries added to the green list have registered a small number of new cases of coronavirus in the past two weeks. At the same time, Great Britain was excluded from the "green list", since a high level of spread of the new Delta strain was recorded there. The expansion of the list of safe countries is part of the strategy for opening the EU to tourists from third countries. The European Union recommends that member states remove all restrictions on entry from the countries on the list, however, each country can, at its discretion, impose restrictions such as a PCR test or self-isolation. The EU states are also not obliged to automatically apply the "green list", but it is taken as a basis when forming their own list of safe directions in each of the countries. // 01.07.2021 - InfoMarket
