To slow coronavirus spread, EU countries and Russia join the list of countries officially closing their borders to all but essential travel
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-europe-russia-travel-ban/
One of the defining characteristics of the European Union has been its strong policy of taking an open approach when it comes to borders in the region: the EU may be a collection of individual countries, but it works as one, and so when you travel from one to the other as an EU citizen, you can move as freely as you do within your own country. Now, in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, all that is changing. Today the EU announced new measures to limit movement between borders within the EU, with the restrictions initially covering 30 days.
After that, Russia, which shares a border with various countries in the EU, also announced its own border closure.
To slow coronavirus spread, EU countries and Russia join the list of countries officially closing their borders to all but essential travel
Mar 16, 2020, 8:19pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-europe-russia-travel-ban/
> One of the defining characteristics of the European Union has been its strong policy of taking an open approach when it comes to borders in the region: the EU may be a collection of individual countries, but it works as one, and so when you travel from one to the other as an EU citizen, you can move as freely as you do within your own country. Now, in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, all that is changing. Today the EU announced new measures to limit movement between borders within the EU, with the restrictions initially covering 30 days.
> After that, Russia, which shares a border with various countries in the EU, also announced its own border closure.