PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron informed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday that he would close the border if the U.Okay. didn't take more restrictive measures to include the coronavirus.
“We had prepared the closure of our border and advised Prime Minister Johnson we might implement it that day if there was no evolution [of British measures],” a senior French official conversant in the dialog advised POLITICO.
French paper Libération reported Saturday evening that Macron had “threatened” Johnson. The French official stated that was “too robust a word” to explain the decision.
The U.Okay. on Friday ordered pubs and restaurants to close, and asked individuals to stay indoors. Faculties have been additionally closed. Nevertheless, Johnson’s workplace rejected any suggestion he had introduced the stricter rules due to one other nation’s threats.
“As the PM stated on Friday these new measures have been taken based mostly on scientific recommendation and following the federal government’s motion plan set out two weeks in the past,” stated a Downing Road official.
Properly before that decision between Macron and Johnson, nations had started taking measures on their borders to include the contagion, and to name for more homogenous measures across the EU.
European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen called on Monday for a short lived restriction on nonessential travel to the EU because of the coronavirus pandemic. (An exception can be made for the U.Okay. since it is still in a Brexit transition period.)
The U.Okay. Overseas Workplace advised “towards all non-essential international journey, initially for a interval of 30 days,” effective Tuesday. And France shut its non-EU, exterior borders on Tuesday at noon. French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that night that for the journey ban to work, all nations inside the EU ought to adopt “coherent” strategies.
“Italy, France, Spain, maybe different nations will do the similar quickly, chose confinement, it goes with out saying that if states, specifically neighboring nations like the UK proceed for much longer without such measures, then it’ll be troublesome for us to allow entry to British residents,” Philippe stated.
Src: France was ready to shut border had Britain not toughened coronavirus measures
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