EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Home affairs

EU ministers to discuss strategy for gradual coordinated lifting of internal border controls

Brussels, 27/04/2020 (Agence Europe)

The EU Member States’ interior ministers will discuss the traffic situation in the Schengen area during an informal teleconference on the morning of Tuesday 28 April, as fifteen or so Member States have re-instated checks at the internal borders of the Schengen area as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Also on the agenda for this meeting are the measures put in place to close the external borders until 15 May (restricting arrivals into the EU from non-Member States), apps for tracing...