France is “favorable” to the reopening of the internal borders of Europe from June 15, “without a fortnight” for travelers, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced on Thursday.
We will apply reciprocity “if certain countries ever impose fortnight on the French,” he said, however.
For the external borders of Europe, “the decision will be taken collectively with all European countries, by June 15,” he added, presenting the second phase of deconfinement. “It does not make sense to do it European country by European country, we must do it collectively and apply this rule collectively”, insisted the Prime Minister.
For the external borders of the EU, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner spoke on Thursday of a possible reopening “with a slight delay, perhaps July 1” accompanied “by a European list of countries of attention that would subject to specific measures at the borders of the European area “.
For the European area, “from June 15, we hope that traffic between France and Germany can return to normal,” added Mr. Castaner, heard by the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly, with his counterpart Horts Seehofer.
Edouard Philippe explained that “some” European “countries have chosen before others to reopen their” internal borders, but “we make our decisions at our own pace and we considered that the right time for us to access our territory national, it will be June 15 “.
“We still have a lot of work on these questions”, but “it seems important to me to tell our fellow citizens what the perspective is. The perspective is June 15, it is not June 2 and under the conditions that we will have the opportunity to specify, “concluded the Prime Minister.
In the majority, several deputies elected in constituencies of French citizens abroad had called for lifting restrictions on the internal borders of Europe.
“The closing of borders in Europe cannot become the new norm every time there is a crisis,” they wrote to the Minister of the Interior on May 9.
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