- Regulation Letter from Spain and Italy to the EU
Most European countries are ready to reopen Schengen's internal borders and free movement space on June 15 . Spain, however, continues to opt for the more conservative approach of the Union and maintains the date of July 1 . There is no legal problem, each capital can decide what it wants, but there is a clear risk for travel and vacation planning: if all your potential rivals open their hands two weeks before, the advantage to attract tourists can be difficult to recover. And if you put up a wall, in addition, you risk reciprocity when the doors of the rest of the continent are open.
This Friday, the EU interior ministers have held a teleconference to address one of the most delicate issues for months, border management. "Most member states will have lifted controls on their internal borders and travel restrictions by June 15, but others will continue until the end of the month. Ministers have agreed that any remaining restrictions will be based on objective criteria related to health, non-discriminatory and proportionate, "the Council's services explain in a statement. "An agreement has been reached with most Schengen countries to reopen internal borders on June 15. However, there are exceptions, such as Spain, which will do so on July 1," said Pieter de Crem, the minister. Belgian, after the meeting ended.
Community sources do not know how many countries have expressed reservations about proceeding already in the middle of the month, but confirm that the date of the 15th is the most repeated in all the meetings. "There is no pressure, but it is always better when we are all in tune," say diplomatic sources.
Brussels only suggests
The opening or closing of your space is a national competition. In March, the 27 reached an agreement to do it in the most coordinated way possible, but the reality was rather chaotic and sending signs of lack of preparation, improvisation. The EU has no powers . The only thing the European Commission can do, and is doing, is proposals, suggestions.
What the commissioners are putting on the table, right now, is to start lifting travel limitations for those who would arrive outside the EU as of July 1 . Right now only nationals who return home and those who have residence can enter, but there are no travelers for pleasure or business, except in very specific and stipulated cases.
"The next important challenge will be how to proceed with the restrictions at the EU's external borders. There is a strong consensus among the member states that we first have to open internally and then move to the external borders," the official said on Friday. Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson at the end of the video conference of ministers. "I understand that the internal borders will be lifted at the end of the month and that we will consider the gradual lifting of restrictions on non-essential travel to the EU in early July," he added in statements collected by Efe.
Italy , the country most affected by the pandemic in February and March, this week has lifted the bans . And a good number of neighbors and partners are expected to do the same in the next 10 days. At the very least, with those who share a land border. Something similar to what Madrid wants to apply with Portugal and France.
For many weeks, there have been several alliances in place, governments that speak and study ways to encourage flows during July and August. Spain and Italy , somewhat concerned, yesterday sent a letter to the European Commission in which "they express the need for the lifting of border controls between EU countries to be carried out in a coordinated , non-discriminatory and based on epidemiological criteria clear and transparent. " To do this, they propose that ECDE, the EU's disease control center, play a key role in establishing these criteria.
There is fear in Madrid and Rome that Spaniards and Italians may be discriminated against and their access may still be restricted, unlike that of other colleagues. And that is why they ask President Ursula von der Leyen to work so that "the free movement of people in the EU and Schengen is only interrupted if it is justified by objective and clear criteria", for example set by the ECDE, and not by unilaterally for each capital. "It is vitally important that we commit ourselves to sharing the necessary information with the European authorities," Sánchez and Conte emphasize in the letter.
Croatia , for example, chaired by the EU this semester, has already authorized nationals of 10 countries in the center, the east and the Baltic to travel almost without restrictions, beyond some security protocols. But not to the other European partners. Portugal has Spanish or Italians in temporary quarantine. Greece, something similar, with Italians, Spanish, Belgians or British without permission at the moment.
There is also concern about the lack of a line facing out. Not all states do the same now, nor will they do later. And these divergences, diplomatic sources estimate, make control as precious as that required by Schengen much more difficult. Now, but especially thinking about the future.
Discretionary means that the internal borders can be affected, and Spain and Italy, as two of the great receivers of visitors from all over the world, are especially sensitized.
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