EU: EU Commission proposes a set of guidelines to support a gradual and coordinated lifting of travel restrictions between EU Member States

On 13 May the European Commission presented ‘a package of guidelines and recommendations to help Member States gradually lift travel restrictions and allow tourism businesses to reopen after months of lockdown, while respecting necessary health precautions.’ After the disparate method for closing borders that prevailed at the beginning of the pandemic, the EU Commission proposes more coordination for their reopening by putting forward a gradual approach starting with the lifting of controls between regions or Member States that display sufficiently similar epidemiological situations.