Greece in talks with UK to allow holidays with vaccine passports

Greek tourism minister says he hopes to ‘dovetail’ with Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown

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Greece is in “technical” talks with the UK over allowing Britons carrying a vaccine passport to travel to its tourist hotspots from May despite concerns in Brussels and other EU capitals.

Haris Theoharis, the country’s tourism minister, said he hoped to “dovetail” with Boris Johnson’s roadmap for allowing Britons to travel but refused to be drawn on whether Greece would break with Brussels to establish the scheme.