Originally Posted by
kac2138
What is taking them so long? Wake up, Europeans! It's like noon over there already! Daddy's got a hotel reservation he needs to cancel if y'all can't get your act together.
Originally Posted by
eng3
Diplomat hours?
Plus even when/if the EU comes out with their recommendation, I think it will take time for each country to update their individual policy so I imagine it will be a few days. Politicians need to argue about it and figure out how to frame it to make them look good.
Also, the news has been flooded with so many 'copies' of the original rumor story, it will be difficult to filter out an updated story about the official announcement for the time being.
Is there a website where official info is posted?
I go by the IATA site for my info since that's where the airline info is based from, but that has some delay.
Some expectation setting may be appropriate here. This isn't like a Presidential Proclamation where one man can pretty much instantly make a decision. The EU is a democratic (with a small d) organisation with a number of different layers of administration (or bureaucracy if you want to take the alternative view some hold) which this would have to clear.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/the...tem-explained/
So, what's likely to happen is that this recommendation will make its way through these stages, until at some point there's agreement to put it into effect. This isn't usually, as you might imagine, a particularly speedy process - and nor do we really know from the articles thus far how far down the path it is. Now for those with imminent itineraries, this actually might be a blessing in disguise - because the chance of this clearing the regulatory hurdles and then individual countries deciding how rigorously they might enforce it depending if it ends up as law or recommendation in just a few days is, well, pretty unlikely.
Those with trips further out ought therefore to get enough notice to be able to cancel, or at least a sense of the direction of travel (sic).
At some point over the next couple of days I imagine more will become apparent.
Official EU websites have the format ec.europa.eu.