French travelers and permanent residents in France arriving from abroad outside the EU will be invited to submit to a fortnight on a "voluntary" basis from Wednesday, May 20, announced Tuesday the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in order to fight the coronavirus epidemic. "From Wednesday, we will ask the French (..) who return to France and (those) who reside in France to voluntarily submit to a fortnight," said Jean-Yves Le Drian on the LCI channel, in clarifying that this measure concerned returns from "outside the European Union".
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"This initiative will be a self-sustaining initiative, based on personal responsibility, and this fortnight may be carried out at home or in the place chosen" by the traveler returning to France, he added. This measure does not currently concern non-European foreigners since the external borders of the EU, including therefore for entry into France, have been closed to them since March 17.
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Inside the EU, Paris hopes to ease border restrictions from June 15, the French foreign minister said. "On the internal borders, we have reciprocity agreements with the neighboring countries and we can think that gradually, the deconfinement helping and if by chance the pandemic does not resume, we will be able to lead to a questioning of these measures of shutdown, "he said. "I think that gradually from June 15 onwards we will be able to achieve a general relaxation, in all that is what I wish for," he added.
For the time being, only cross-border commuters, people with a family motive or those returning to their homes can move between France and other EU countries.