Sources: Trump bans travel from Europe to the US over coronavirus
Yhdysvalloissa asuva talousanalyytikko Trumpin Euroopalle asettamasta matkustuskiellosta: ”Tietää taloustaantumaa ja vaikuttaa kostolta” (finnish)
Trump has suddenly banned travel from EU countries to USA starting from March 20. He's saying the reason is EU's poor response towards Coronavirus compared to USA. UK is excluded from the ban, but all other EU countries are included no matter how many cases they have. This means that people from EU countries won't be able to travel USA for time being although citizens from USA can still travel to EU countries even though travelling abroad is discouraged in USA right now.
Some of experts are saying that this move is revenge on EU, especially to France and Germany who Trump has had beef over trade with. The ban was sudden and EU countries nor the ambassdors of said countries were notified of it before hand. In other hand it doesn't make sense to ban travel from all EU countries, but not from UK who also has lot of cases of Corona. It's likely that this will deepen financial crisis that has been growing due to corona virus, the stock market has taken deep fall after the announcement.
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In other news Italy has closed all the shops aparts from grocery shops and pharmacies in order to prevent spread of Coronavirus.
Multiple countries have banned large group events and closed schools.
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Tbh, since the USA's situation is not really better than it's in majority of Europe- cases are rising in high speed and there isn't enough testing, it does seem bit petty. Travel bans do help and I think they should be encouraged from epidemia areas, but it does just seem like lot and out of nowhere to EU so seems bit like revenge. Also I wonder how EU will respond to this, will the try to negotiate with Trump or will they try to give similar response.
Yhdysvalloissa asuva talousanalyytikko Trumpin Euroopalle asettamasta matkustuskiellosta: ”Tietää taloustaantumaa ja vaikuttaa kostolta” (finnish)
Trump has suddenly banned travel from EU countries to USA starting from March 20. He's saying the reason is EU's poor response towards Coronavirus compared to USA. UK is excluded from the ban, but all other EU countries are included no matter how many cases they have. This means that people from EU countries won't be able to travel USA for time being although citizens from USA can still travel to EU countries even though travelling abroad is discouraged in USA right now.
Some of experts are saying that this move is revenge on EU, especially to France and Germany who Trump has had beef over trade with. The ban was sudden and EU countries nor the ambassdors of said countries were notified of it before hand. In other hand it doesn't make sense to ban travel from all EU countries, but not from UK who also has lot of cases of Corona. It's likely that this will deepen financial crisis that has been growing due to corona virus, the stock market has taken deep fall after the announcement.
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In other news Italy has closed all the shops aparts from grocery shops and pharmacies in order to prevent spread of Coronavirus.
Multiple countries have banned large group events and closed schools.
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Tbh, since the USA's situation is not really better than it's in majority of Europe- cases are rising in high speed and there isn't enough testing, it does seem bit petty. Travel bans do help and I think they should be encouraged from epidemia areas, but it does just seem like lot and out of nowhere to EU so seems bit like revenge. Also I wonder how EU will respond to this, will the try to negotiate with Trump or will they try to give similar response.