BRUSSELS - The European Commission will on Wednesday consider how to craft a plan to ease the bloc out of a virus lockdown that has dealt a body blow to the economies of EU members.
Initially, a commission spokesman announced the meeting would set out guidelines for a bloc-wide strategy. "The commission doesn't want to risk sending a signal of relaxing which could be misunderstood by some member states. Better to wait until after Easter." "We understand that these strategies are very gradual will be implemented step-by-step, which is indeed one important element that we will certainly be highlighting as well," he said.
But it has managed to soften some strict border measures by states such as Austria and Poland that for a time badly crimped the flow of road freight.
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