Earlier this week, the European Union declined to include US in its list of "safe countries,"
meaning that American travelers will be unwelcome inside the bloc for
the foreseeable future, due to the eyewatering US coronavirus infection
numbers. Controversially, the list includes China -- the country where
the virus originated -- on the condition of reciprocal arrangements.
EU officials insist that the
decision was not political and based entirely on epidemiological
evidence, in the hope this would pacify US President Donald Trump, a man
who has attacked the bloc on several occasions.
However,
others privately concede that had Brussels wanted to make the pill more
palatable for an American audience, they could have added a sugar
coating. "In the past, I can see that we might have not included China
in order to keep the US happy," says an EU diplomat not authorized to
speak on record about how the decision was made.
Cracks in the Trump-Europe relationship are turning into a chasm - CNN
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