travel insurance mandatory for EU entry?

[r1200rt]

EU border rules: Medical insurance confusion

New EES checks spark confusion for UK travellers. Do Eurostar passengers really need medical cover?

euroweeklynews.com

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The scheme, which operators feared would cause chaos at airports, ports and railway stations, is finally coming into force

www.theguardian.com

"A message on the screen warns that the answers are “binding” and passengers may have to provide proof"

 

[wessie]

The article seems to answer the question if you care to read and comprehend it.

Seems the EU does not mandate travel insurance but France does for third country travellers. Not a new policy from the French but as with all the other stuff that has existed for ever, like having money, accommodation and a return ticket, never enforced as they can't be arsed.

My question, why would one travel outside the UK without a comprehensive travel policy that covers medical stuff not covered by GHIC, such as a medivac or a hermetically sealed coffin?

As for EES, I imagine there will be much comedy and angst over the next few months as plucky Brits try to cope with another layer of bureaucracy in their desperation to leave the country in their Motability car to give their PIP and universal credit to foreigners.

 

[MrC99]

My understanding is that health/travel insurance for entry into the EU isn't mandatory however individual countries do require it depending on how their own medical services are funded. For example France has always required travel insurance which includes repatriation and costs incurred at hospitals (ie those items not covered by the GHIC) but up to now hasn't enforced it. As a result if you enter France at a border where EES is in place after 12/10/25 there may be a question on the screen asking if you've got insurance and if you say no then the French border guard may ask further questions or refuse entry. You could of course just say yes on the screen and sail through as now

Edit: Oops @wessie beat me to it by a nanosecond!

 

[G&T]

hermetically sealed coffin?

My last wishes are, ‘leave me there.’

 

[Wapping]

The article seems to answer the question if you care to read and comprehend it.

Steady….

 

[wessie]

My last wishes are, ‘leave me there.’

well, yes. It would be most pragmatic.

we don't do the memorial thing with graves or headstones. Some sort of non-religious gathering, torch the corpse and if the deceased has requested it, the ashes are scattered somewhere. My mother is polluting the Wye near Kerne Bridge in Herefordshire. I've no idea what my mother did with my father's ashes. If she collected them in 1988, she never mentioned it.

I would hope my son would do a deal with the insurer on the grounds of saving them cash. Pauper's funeral overseas and a cash consideration into my estate. Thereby saving the cost of a UK cremation to my estate, thus boosting his inheritance. Win, win for the son and insurer.

 

[Wapping]

Euroweeklynews, is a rag.