European Union To Ban Non-Essential Travel

@ Endre says: "AB needs to get banned, wishing people getting killed sets a new low for this website" You like it or not - Darwinian natural selection will happen either socially, physically, or technologically. Low brainer like Pete or roundtree who has lower IQ and many fellow obese Brexiteers will be naturally extinct first. I'm not saying that all Brexiteers or anti-establishment folk are all stupid, obese or long-term unemployed. PS: there is a minor amount of smart people in that population. But the majority of them, typically unflexible, non-adaptable and politically fanatic people just like many Arch-Brexiteers, is gonna wiped out first due to either social pressure, poor health and nutrition, natural disaster, pandemic, AI automation, and advanced technology. Their fast extinction is good: in Europe, they're state burdens and ideally tax benefits are only for those who paid and can efficiently manage things in pragmatic way. The faster they extinct, the better would it be. In Muricah, things are of course a bit different: no need pandemic, just wait until the next mass shooting - it's recurrent every year coz Murican loves gun. You play fire, you get burnt. (Galatians 6:7 God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows).

@ The nice Paul Just have a look what is happening on the ground with each EU country doing his own thing with border checks, border closures, banning certain flights. Not to mention the very different approaches countries have chosen to address the current challenges. In situations as this one, millions of citizens take their cue from their respective governments. I dare to bet if Ursula were to appear on TV that the audience would be very small, let alone someone would take a cue from it. I am under no illusion that 100% of citizens will obey their own elected governments, but a fair % will.

@ron Incorrect. The EU Commission has competence over national authorities for state aid; states must follow EU rules. Only the commission can propose law changes. If you think Ursula went public without first doing a huge amount of behind-the-scenes work with the individual state governments, you have no idea how the EU works. My only criticism of the EU is their weird translation of “transport sector” as “mobility sector” (the latter is more often used to describe wheelchairs or other technological aids for people with mobility issues, not to describe the shipping of goods in lorries, vans and trucks, etc).

@ Pete Correct. I don't think that Ursula has any authority in this. Obviously she, and the European Commissioners can make suggestions and recommendations, but decisions are made by respective governments. The fact that she is making this kind of statements, gives me as well the impression that she made them in an attempt to stay in the picture, after the respective nations had taken the lead already.

@yourcommiedadddddd @Eskimo From December till late January China covered the thing to the world.From late January till late February Chinese airlines kept flying to other countries and China kept saying other countries overreacted.Is this waht you mean GAVE a month?Yes almost everyone failed.Their failure was not OVERREACT as soon as possible. @yourcommiedadddddd Some lies do not become true, even repeated a thousand times.