Together with the cities of Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg and Novi Sad in Serbia, Kaunas in Lithuania has been designated as Cultural Capital of Europe for 2022. Kaunas is planning to use the celebrations to highlight Kaunas as a city, which is taking advantage of its history, dating back to the 10th century, to form a new modern legend about the city.

After more than a year with worldwide travel ban Iceland goes in the frontline opening its boarders to the world. From February 16th Iceland has exempted citizens of Europe’s Schengen zone from quarantine and test regulations, if they are vaccinated with one of the vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency, which currently include Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson. From April 6th anyone is allowed entry to Iceland, if they are vaccinated with one of the four approved vaccines.