The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, confirmed in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties on Thursday 7 May that guidelines for a gradual lifting of internal EU border controls would be presented “next week”, together with measures to support SMEs in the tourism sector, which have been badly affected by the pandemic.
The guidelines, due out on 13 May, will meet three criteria: the level of virus circulation on both sides of the border and the...