Fearing that the EU will once again be faced with the shortages and unrest caused by the reintroduction of border controls last March, the European Commissioner for Transport, Adina Vălean, wrote on Tuesday 19 January to the relevant EU ministers asking them to recognise freight and transport workers “as essential personnel”.
The latter, she writes, should be exempted from the obligation to submit to the tests and quarantine measures reintroduced by certain States to limit the spread...