Brits will effectively be blocked from sunning themselves across the beaches and poolside's of Europe if the German chancellors lead is followed.
Yesterday Angela Merkel called on the leaders of other EU countries to introduce quarantine for British travellers.
The veteran politician advised them to do like Germany and introduce a 14 day mandatory quarantine period for Brits in a bid to stop the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant.
Speaking before her country's nervy draw with Hungary in the Euros, Merkel said: “In our country if you come from Great Britain you have to go into quarantine.
“That’s not the case in every European country and that’s what I’d like to see.”
She went on to express regret that the EU nations had not been unified when it came to their treatment of people from the UK.
"What I regret is we have not yet been able to achieve a uniform behaviour among the Member States in terms of travel restrictions," the chancellor continued.
"That is backfiring. We now have a situation in Portugal that could perhaps have been avoided, and that's why we have to work even harder on this.
"We've made pretty good progress in recent months, but we're not yet where I would like the EU to be.”
Environment Secretary George Eustice pushed back at the suggestion that quarantine periods were needed for Brits across the continent.
"Each country is taking their own decisions on this, so it will be for them to judge what approach they want to take," he told LBC.
"I'm not sure that such an approach would be justified given the highly advanced stage we are currently at now in terms of vaccination, with 80% having had one jab and now 60% having had the second jab.
"I don't think such a move would be justified but obviously it's for individual countries to make these judgments."
While the prospect of quarantine might frustrate the British travel industry and those wanting to get abroad, recent coronavirus case data does paint a gloomy picture.
The UK is now behind only Georgia in a table of case rates, with 96 cases detected for every 100,000 people over the past week.
This is double's Spain's figure, triple that in Greece and more than ten times greater than Germany's.
If Merkel's advice is taken and quarantine measures are implemented across the block, then this afternoon's travel green list update may prove to be a damp squib.
It is expected that Malta and the Balearic Islands will be added to the travel green list.
While they are allowing Brits in, a two week quarantine period would probably be enough to turn most holidaymakers off.
