The repatriation by air of European citizens stranded in non-Member States has been a real headache and is progressing, and both the EU’s Civil Protection Mechanism and the European Foreign Ministers are mobilising. The latter will address the issue on Friday 3 April at a videoconference convened by the High Representative, Josep Borrell, on the international consequences of the COVID-19 crisis (see EUROPE B12459A9).
“Of the 600,000 citizens who had indicated their wish to return,...