UK issues warning for travellers to the EU

UK issues warning for travellers to the EU
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London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The UK Foreign Office has issued a caution to holidaymakers staying within the European Union for their holidays this autumn and winter.

UK tourists journeying to either France OR Germany have been alerted by the Foreign Office over new entry conditions. The Foreign Office has given a warning to holidaymakers staying within the EU for their vacations this autumn and winter.

What are the new entry conditions for Germany?

“There are temporary border rules in place to travel into Germany,” the FCDO clarified. “Check the entry requirements for Germany.” It said: “A temporary reintroduction of border controls is currently in position at Germany’s land borders.”

The Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community notified the European Commission in September that it has ordered the temporary reintroduction of border control at Germany’s land borders with France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark for six months, beginning September 16, 2024.

What prompted the UK Foreign Office’s warning?

Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser stated: “We are taking tangible action to reinforce our internal security, and we are taking a tough line against irregular migration. We are continuing to pursue this course. Until the new Common European Asylum System and other measures ensure robust protection for the EU’s external borders, we must also do more to maintain our national borders.

“These border control criteria include effective refusals of entry at the border – more than 30,000 people have been refused entry at the land borders with Poland, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic just since October 2023. That is why we will extend our temporary border control to include all of Germany’s land borders, as I ordered today.” 

The country’s interior minister also said the border checks would impede migration and “protect against the acute dangers presented by Islamist terrorism and serious crime,” but critics have condemned it as politically motivated and likely to be mostly ineffective. Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, stated it would be unfair to “move to a logic of ad hoc exemptions from the Schengen agreement, with border authorities that will … hurt one of the fundamental achievements of the EU.”

Daniele Naddei

Daniele Naddei is a journalist at Parliament News covering European affairs, was born in Naples on April 8, 1991. He also serves as the Director of the CentroSud24 newspaper. During the period from 2010 to 2013, Naddei completed an internship at the esteemed local radio station Radio Club 91. Subsequently, he became the author of a weekly magazine published by the Italian Volleyball Federation of Campania (FIPAV Campania), which led to his registration in the professional order of Journalists of Campania in early 2014, listed under publicists. From 2013 to 2018, he worked as a freelance photojournalist and cameraman for external services for Rai and various local entities, including TeleCapri, CapriEvent, and TLA. Additionally, between 2014 and 2017, Naddei collaborated full-time with various newspapers in Campania, both in print and online. During this period, he also resumed his role as Editor-in-Chief at Radio Club 91.
Naddei is actively involved as a press officer for several companies and is responsible for editing cultural and social events in the city through his association with the Medea Fattoria Sociale. This experience continued until 2021. Throughout these years, he hosted or collaborated on football sports programs for various local broadcasters, including TLA, TvLuna, TeleCapri, Radio Stonata, Radio Amore, and Radio Antenna Uno.
From 2016 to 2018, Naddei was employed as an editor at newspapers of national interest within the Il24.it circuit, including Internazionale24, Salute24, and OggiScuola. Since 2019, Naddei has been one of the creators of the Rabona television program "Calcio è Passione," which has been broadcast on TeleCapri Sport since 2023.