Vacations to Europe may be back on the cards. Ambassadors from all EU countries met today to discuss plans to reopen Europe’s borders to tourists from around the world. EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen tweeted that it’s “time to revive the EU tourism industry” after a near-blanket ban on nonessential visitors from outside the bloc for the last 12 months. But as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, it’s complicated.
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