Germany Reportedly Pushed to Remove Morocco from EU Safe Travel List Amid COVID-19 Surge

13 September 2020 – bySylvanus · 1 min read

The deputy of the ninth constituency of French citizens living abroad, M’jid El Guerrab, claims that Germany is behind the decision to remove Morocco from the list of safe countries of the European Union (EU).

"I was told that it was a European decision, we could even say a German one. Because if France had decided to put Morocco on the green list for travel, Germany had refused to put it on the list of risk countries, and it was followed by the other countries," he said in an interview with TelQuel. However, he says he has noticed that by force of circumstances, Germany has prevailed, because in the end there has been an acceleration of Covid-19 contamination cases in the kingdom in recent weeks.

The elected official remains optimistic about the improvement of the epidemiological situation in the kingdom, a guarantee of Morocco’s reintegration into the green list. "I don’t despair. In the days or weeks to come, when the situation stabilizes in Morocco, we could see the kingdom back on the green list," he hopes.

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