EU travel rules are ‘incredibly over-politicized’, Wizz Air CEO says

The coordination of travel rules in the EU has become a politicized process and the rules remain “unpredictable,” the CEO of Wizz Air said as the airline experiences “huge” demand for the summer. “I think the European Union as such has broken down completely, we have failed to come with unified measures and an orchestrated approach dealing with the situation and it has become incredibly over-politicized,” József Váradi, CEO of budget airline Wizz Air said Wednesday. European consumers are keen to get flying again and spend some time away this summer. However, there are concerns that constant changes to quarantine policies and the need to take Covid tests before and after the holiday might put some travelers off. In addition, France and Germany recently put restrictions on non-essential travel from the UK where a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus first discovered in India has spread. Some believe the move could have been somewhat politically motivated following acrimony over the supply of Covid vaccines. Váradi said that restrictions on UK travelers was an example of how travel rules had become politicized, noting that “if you look at the UK for example the country is very well vaccinated, better than the European so you guys should travel freely within the European Union.”<br/>