Greek PM rejects calls for EU-wide quarantine of British tourists

Bloc urged to speed up Covid jabs instead, but Balearic Islands ask Spain to tighten controls on Britons

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Greece's prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has rejected calls from Angela Merkel for British tourists to be quarantined on arrival in the EU, raising hopes that tighter restrictions in Europe will not prove terminal to summer holiday plans.

By contrast in the Balearic Islands, authorities asked Spain's central government to tighten controls for holidaymakers from the UK.