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Europe to Allow Vaccinated Americans to Travel to Continent This Summer

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Photo Credit: The European union and its constellation countries will soon allow vaccinated Americans to travel to the continent for the peak summer season.  Flickr / unipavia

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The American vaccination program has been so successful that the unthinkable even a few months ago has happened. So much for competence.

Finally some relief for the much maligned American tourist after a year of being the bane of the world: vaccinated Americans will be allowed into European Union countries starting this summer, according to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in an interview with The New York Times. “The Americans, as far as I can see, use European Medicines Agency-approved vaccines," she said in this interview. "This will enable free movement and t

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