Brussels this week will urge national governments to co-ordinate their exit from coronavirus lockdowns, as it seeks to prevent any repeat of the jumble of national steps that marked the start of the crisis.
According to an internal paper seen by the FT, the European Commission will advise governments to give each other advanced warning of plans to relax border controls, reopen shops, and relax confinement restrictions.
The four-page paper, circulated to national capitals on Monday and entitled “European Roadmap Towards Exiting from the Covid-19 Pandemic”, sketches out the commission’s position ahead of its publication this week of official guidelines on Europe’s exit strategy.