Vaccinated American tourists will be allowed to visit Europe this summer

American tourists who are fully vaccinated will be allowed to visit Europe this summer, one of the EU’s top bosses has said.

Tourists from the United States will finally be allowed to vacation in Europe after more than a year of closures while the European Union hailed progress the United States has made in its COVID-19 vaccine drive.

Ursula Von Der Leyen, the head of the European Union’s executive body, told The New York Times on Sunday that the speedy pace of vaccinations in the United States will ‘enable free movement and the travel to the European Union.’

She did not give an exact timeline for when tourism from the United States would resume and added that resuming leisure travel would depend ‘on the epidemiological situation.

‘The Americans, as far as I can see, use European Medicines Agency-approved vaccines. This will enable free movement and the travel to the European Union,’ she said.

‘Because one thing is clear: All 27 member states will accept, unconditionally, all those who are vaccinated with vaccines that are approved by E.M.A.’

She added: ‘But the situation is improving in the United States, as it is, hopefully, also improving in the European Union.’ 

American tourists who are fully vaccinated will be allowed to visit Europe this summer after more than a year of closures

The European Union hailed progress the United States has made in its COVID-19 vaccine drive

The European Medicines Agency, which regulated drugs for the European Union, has approved the Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson jabs – which are the three vaccines being used in the United States.