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Details of the Hungarian announcement of the border closure are still being investigated, the European Commission said at a press conference in Brussels on Monday.
The EU body believes that the border blockade is not an effective measure against the spread of the epidemic, writes Euronews.
There was a video conference with the border control authorities last Friday, and there was no indication that changes were expected on the Hungarian border, Adalbert Jahnz, the committee’s spokesman for the Schengen area, told a journalist. The position of the committee is clear, the border blockade is not an effective measure in the fight against the epidemic.
It is the national competence of each member state to enter their territory, but they are obliged to inform each other about the measures, said Vivian Loonela, spokeswoman for coronavirus issues. She also said that the committee’s directive in July was to replace the border barrier with more specific measures and for member states to ensure that the regulation was not discriminatory.
Gergely Gulyás, head of the Prime Minister’s Office, announced last Friday that Hungary will once again close its borders to foreigners as of September 1 and that Hungarians returning from abroad will be quarantined for 14 days. This can be triggered by two Hungarian coronavirus tests conducted 48 hours apart, at your expense.
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