While Europeans will soon be able to keep their Covid tracking application and their data when crossing borders, a single application will not be compatible to function in this way: Stop Covid, the French application.
France refused to use Apple and Google technology, preferring its own.
If it had been necessary to find another name for the "Stop Covid" application, it could have been: "Alone against all".
In recent weeks, the European Commission has worked to ensure that Europeans can keep their national application even if they cross borders.
And it will work ... Except for the French.
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The only one to have refused the technology designed by Apple and Google
From Monday, Germans, Italians and Irish will be able to test the system.
This will allow a German, for example, to go to Italy for a few days while continuing to use his national application (Corona Warn App).
The app will work in the peninsula, alerting them if they come into contact with the virus, and even warn them when they return to Germany, if a person crossed in Italy has tested positive in the meantime.
All this is made possible thanks to the gateway system set up at European level.
This system is due to ramp up by the end of November and work with 18 of the 19 tracking applications that exist in the European Union.
The only one that is not compatible is the French application, "StopCovid", soon to be renamed "Tous anti-Covid".
The reason ?
France is the only European country to have refused to use the technology designed by Apple and Google, preferring their own.
A bit like in the days of SECAM video recorders when almost all of Europe used PAL.
"Or a bit like with your Minitel", smiles a European source.