Most of the controls are still valid until mid-May, according to a Commission website monitoring the situation.
Appearing at a joint video press conference on Wednesday, Johansson proposed the common approach that comprises three stages. In phase zero, transport, frontier, posted and seasonal workers should be allowed to access their work. In phase one, smooth transit should be facilitated for professionals and for personal reasons as well as for tourism. In phase two, travel for all purposes should be permitted throughout the bloc.
Although giving no timing for entering phase one, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides said that a coordinated approach should be taken by starting "lifting restrictions between areas or Member States with sufficiently similar epidemiological situations."
She gave some criteria as preconditions for reopening travel that include assuring epidemiological evidence, sufficient health system capacity being in place for local people and tourists, robust surveillance and monitoring and testing capacity and contact tracing.
"This summer will not be a summer like all the others, and we're going to have to adapt to the new reality," Kyriakides told reporters.
She called for a responsible way of easing the restrictions: "We mustn't ever forget all the sacrifices that citizens have been taking for the last few months in terms of the change in their everyday life."
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