Denmark has long been a top travel destination for Americans, and US tourists who are vaccinated can from this weekend return to see the Little Mermaid.
EU countries have finally agreed to reopen their external borders on July 1st to visitors from 15 countries but American tourists will still not be allowed to travel to Europe because the US is still considered a risk due to the high number of Covid-19 cases.
"Trust in Trump's America is gone." The coronavirus crisis has caused a dramatic deterioration in the European public perception of the US and left many believing the EU had become "irrelevant", new polling finds.
American travellers look set to be denied entry to the EU when the bloc reopens its borders on July 1st, according to reports. While those from Australia and New Zealand will likely to be allowed to return.
President Donald Trump's reported wish to buy Greenland may have been rejected by Denmark, but it underscores the
rapidly rising value of the massive, ice-covered island due to global warming and to China's drive for an Arctic presence.
Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said on Tuesday that despite previous information provided by Washington to the contrary, no Danes will be affected by US President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens from the Muslim-majority countries Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen from entering the United States for 90 days.
In a move that deviated from Denmark’s traditionally deferential approach to the United States, Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen has openly criticized President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending the entry of foreign nationals from seven Muslim countries and halting the US refugee resettlement programme for 120 days.
The Danish Foreign Ministry has already been contacted by a number of dual-citizen Danes worried that the United States’ new entry bans will affect them, a ministry spokesperson told Politiken.
Donald Trump’s call for all Muslims to be banned from entering the United States, was roundly condemned by MPs from across the Danish political spectrum with even the anti-immigration Danish People's Party saying that his election would mean Denmark "would have to review" its US ties.
