http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200606-013404-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/lifting-travel-restrictions-in-the-era-of-covid-19-in-search-of-a-european-approach/ Lifting Travel Restrictions in the Era of COVID-19: In Search of a European Approach van Elsuwege, Peter eng 2020-06-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus COVID 19 freedom of movement Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On 13 May, the European Commission presented a package of guidelines and recommendations to help Member States gradually lift travel restrictions and allow tourism businesses to reopen. With this initiative, the Commission aimed to play a pro-active role in ensuring an orderly and coordinated exit strategy after months of lockdown in virtually all EU Member States. However, few weeks later, it seems that every Member State applies its own rules and timetable for lifting the travel restrictions, leading to a non-transparent patchwork of rules and regulations.