Germany Moves to Reactivate European Travel as Virus Ebbs

  • Cabinet replaces warning with advisories effective June 15
  • Change to affect EU-27, Schengen, U.K. if virus kept in check

Travelers pass a luggage trolley bay outside Tegel airport in Berlin, Germany, on June 2.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government took a further step to reactivate European travel as the spread of the coronavirus dwindles.

Merkel’s cabinet approved plans Wednesday that pave the way for a broad travel warning to be replaced from June 15 with recommendations for individual nations in the 27-member European Union, countries in the passport-free Schengen area and the U.K.