Ursula von der Lyden said the EU and US have been holding technical talks.
She mentioned only vaccinated people, mentioned that EU countries will "unconditionally" admit those who are vaccinated with the vaccines approved by the EMA.
Does that mean the 48 or 72-hour negative tests aren't good enough? Because they're going to allow EU residents who have negative tests or are recovered from covid infections to travel.
She also said they expect 70% of EU adults to be vaccinated by mid June, which sounds very optimistic considering that they're not even half way there for first shot percentage.
But if they've been holding talks and EU wanted reciprocity presumably the US didn't say no to reciprocity or they wouldn't have bothered holding talks about implementation. Or they don't care about reciprocity, they'll take American tourism money if that's the only choice.
They want American tourism money. Perhaps on the assumption that vaccinated Americans' tourism money comes with less risk of spreading Covid-19 than unvaccinated Europeans' tourism money while the EU/Schengen countries try to run up the vaccination numbers to play catch-up.