Originally Posted by flyingcrazy

Now that people are being given a chance to experience normality again and realise how nice it is, it is going to be much much harder for countries to reimpose lockdowns/border closures. I just do not see it happening. As Ireland, France, the US and Belgium are now saying, once they reopen, thats them reopening for good, if the virus comes back then they will have to find other ways to deal with it.

Today is a monumental step in the right direction, and for UK arrivals/citizens we are now welcome in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia and Poland from today (to add to Sweden, Netherlands, Italy and Portugal). That is massive.

1st July should be the next grand reopening! I hope the rest of the EU/EEA opens up to us, and also it is the day individual EU states are encouraged to start allowing in non EU citizens. Rumour has it France wants to reopen to Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco etc. All great steps back to normality.

News reports are suggesting some announcement on the UK nonsense will be made around June 25th/26th. Rishi Sunak who is a known opponent of the measure, also made comments yesterday that changes were being discussed. Obvious one is an EU/EEA wide exemption.