Slovakia, Czech Republic to allow free movement across mutual border from Thursday
The leaders of the Czech Republic and Slovakia announced on Wednesday that the two countries will allow free movement across mutual border from Thursday, the Czech government office said in a press release.
The announcement came here when Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic paid his first official visit to the Czech Republic and met with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis.
The leaders discussed mutual relations, cooperation on opening their borders, addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the multiannual financial framework of the European Union (EU), and the cooperation between the Visegrad group (V4) which includes Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.
The decision of allowing free movement had been made days ago but was announced on Wednesday as a surprise.
The two prime ministers stressed the need for continued bilateral cooperation, including corporations in regional platforms such as the V4. They also discussed the so-called recovery plan proposed by the European Commission.
“It was a very good visit and we will meet again on June 11 in Lednice, where, for the first time after the coronavirus (pandemic), there will be a physical summit of V4 prime ministers, where we will discuss even more together at the upcoming European Council summit on June 19,”
said Babis.
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Source: Xinhua
Since this is an English language website, you should clarify if this is only for locals or also for foreigner residents living in these countries and foreigners from EU only or also for all foreigners living in these countries. If this agreement excludes foreigners residents from non EU countries, please ask the authorities why they would exclude foreigners from non EU countries because if that’s the case is completely ridiculous since EU or not EU residents are living in the same place and the virus is not detecting who is from EU and who is not.