Posted on 03/16/2020 6:55:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BRUSSELS - European Union countries must take care not to damage food and medicine supply lines as they slap on border restrictions in the drive to curb the spread of coronavirus, the EU’s executive arm said on Monday.
From Portugal in the west to economic powerhouse Germany to Hungary in the east, EU countries have tightened frontier controls across the normally open-border Schengen zone which includes most member states as well as non-members Switzerland and Norway.
“The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the challenge of protecting the health of the population whilst avoiding disruptions to the free movement of persons, and the delivery of goods and essential services across Europe,” the European Commission said in a note to the 27 member states.
“The implementation of... checks of persons and goods should be governed by the principle of solidarity between member states,” said the new border management guidelines, which the Commission circulated to national capitals on Monday and which were seen by Reuters.
Member states’ ambassadors to Brussels will discuss the matter when they meet in person at 1800 GMT. Most other policy discussions in the EU are now conducted by videoconference, including a call between European leaders scheduled for Tuesday on the health and ensuing economic crises.
The Commission said suspending freedom of movement for people, goods and services - fundamental principles of the EU Single Market - risked exacerbating panic buying and aggravating the economic impact of the coronavirus.
“In order to avoid shortages and a worsening of the social and economic difficulties that all European countries are already experiencing, maintaining the functioning of the Single Market is key,” the Commission said.
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Insanity
Too late. The horse fled the barn. Every EU country is shutting its borders.
They said the same thing 2 weeks ago when some were calling for the Italian border to be closed
The timing of Brexit was excellent.
Meanwhile in the USA, the Democrat Party demands open borders (to import as many pro-Democrat voters as possible and get ‘em on the welfare—and voter—rolls).
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Tell them to test the theory by opening the border to their home to whoever we choose can come in to it.
This should be the nail in Globlism’s coffin.
I’s going to say...what’s up with all our illegals at the border? I’ve nit heard word one about our Mexican border with all this.
Not saying poor South Americans are major vectors of this, but it could eventually spread that way.
no way.
if one wolf enter your broken fence, you may not have to fix the fence right away to deal with the wolf.
but if one is entering every second, you damn well believe you have to close/fix the gate first
Obviously an open borders policy is very dangerous and always has been. It's not just poor South Americans who cross open borders. Terrorists and other enemies of the USA do, and obviously there is no way to prevent those carrying the coronavirus from entering the USA across open borders.
To halt immigration from Europe and Asia while maintaining an open borders policy is obviously absurd.
The Shengen Rules have allowed the Corona virus to move through Europe faster than Patton’s Third Army.
Yea, right, the OBVIOUS thing to to is export as many Italians as possible to all parts of the EU. /s
That's what happens when someone is in charge who is unaccountable.
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