The past few days, especially if you live in Europe, you will have run across news articles like this one and this one. In the first case, British citizens were denied entry in the European Union as tourists. In the second, they were barred from boarding their flight at Heathrow Airport, despite having a residence in Spain, because of questions about their documentation. Even though the legal foundation of the airline staff’s decision in the latter case was questionable, when I saw the article I couldn’t help but wonder “under what rock have those people been living the past few months?” Britain left the European Union on January 1st, making UK citizens third country foreigners in the EU; with a pandemic raging on top of that you can ask whether insisting to spend New Year in the UK and traveling shortly after is the smartest of moves.
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The past few days, especially if you live in Europe, you will have run across news articles like this one and this one. In the first case, British citizens were denied entry in the European Union as tourists. In the second, they were barred from boarding their flight at Heathrow Airport, despite having a residence in Spain, because of questions about their documentation. Even though the legal foundation of the airline staff’s decision in the latter case was questionable, when I saw the article I couldn’t help but wonder “under what rock have those people been living the past few months?” Britain left the European Union on January 1st, making UK citizens third country foreigners in the EU; with a pandemic raging on top of that you can ask whether insisting to spend New Year in the UK and traveling shortly after is the smartest of moves.