Europe Can’t Stop Pandemic From Rocking Its Foundations
The response by EU member states is threatening to disrupt trade and undermine the postwar integration project.
A line of haulage trucks queue with cargo on Germany's border with the Czech Republic on March 17.
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An Estonian ferry sailing from Germany to the Latvian capital Riga will disembark more than 600 citizens from the Baltic states on Thursday night after they were unable to return home because Poland sealed its borders and effectively cut them off.
The 48-hour emergency return trek to repatriate people, though, portends an even greater problem for Europe as governments go it alone in trying to combat the spread of coronavirus: How to keep trade flowing in a market that was supposed to be seamless.