Where can Hungarians travel freely even during the epidemic?

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The government believes that Hungary should not allow any foreign citizen to enter the country and should put even Hungarian citizens into a 2-week-long quarantine if they return home from abroad to stop the spread of the virus. This strict measure was understandable at the beginning of September when the number of infections was low in Hungary. However, that difference evaporated in the last few weeks, and the trend reversed even.

According to Index, in Europe, each country is free to decide who they let in. The only universal feature is that citizenship does not count – it only matters which country people come from. Some of the countries even went further and ranked the different regions. This is understandable in huge countries like Germany, which is also a federal republic, so it is not new for people to remember whether they are from Bayern or Brandenburg.

However, Hungary is the only EU member state that does not let in incoming foreign citizens. Furthermore, it prescribes a 10-day-long compulsory quarantine even for Hungarians coming from abroad. Of course, there are some exceptions for both Hungarian and non-Hungarian citizens. We collected those in THIS, as well as THIS article.

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