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Angela Merkel has raised the prospect of fully vaccinated Britons visiting Germany after holding talks with Boris Johnson at Chequers, amid concerns over plans to restrict travel to the EU.
The German chancellor declined to immediately lift controls and pointed out that the UK had also imposed rules of its own on German travellers, but said restrictions may be eased for those who have had both doses of a Covid jab in the “forseeable future”.
“We have adopted certain protective measures when we were not, as yet so familiar with a Delta variant,” the chancellor told reporters at a press conference.
The chancellor also said she was “optimstic” about a solution being found to problems in Northern Ireland relating to the post-Brexit trading arrangement.
She said she believed that “pragmatic solutions” could be found so that both the integrity of the single market is maintained and “acceptable solutions” are created. “I think I’m optimistic that this can happen,” she said.
