EU will push to unlock borders as coronavirus ravages travel and tourism

TheStar Wed, May 13, 2020 07:08am - 3 years View Original


A view shows the empty beach of the Promenade des Anglais in Nice during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France. - Reuters filepic

BRUSSELS: The European Union executive will recommend on Wednesday that border restrictions be gradually lifted and travel stalled by the coronavirus pandemic allowed to restart in order to revive tourism, a major industry across the 27-country bloc.

Nearly all travel has been halted in Europe, a devastating blow for the tourism sector, which normally contributes almost one-tenth of the EU's economic output.

Even within the Schengen area, comprising 26 EU and other European countries, and where frontiers are normally invisible, at least 17 countries have put emergency border controls in place to contain the virus.

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