EU: Festivals, concerts to be last to reopen

As governments in Europe begin to lay out exit plans, the EU Commission has published guidelines emphasising a staggered restart to socioeconomic activities

The European Commission HQ in Brussels © Thijs ter Haar/Flickr

The European Commission has published a set of guidelines on how member states should start to emerge from lockdown, indicating that mass gatherings such as festivals and concerts may be the last kind of social activity to restart.

In the document, entitled ‘Joint European Roadmap towards lifting Covid-19 containment measures’, the commission suggests a “progressive” reinstatement of gatherings of people.

The sequencing proposed in the document, starting with the reopening of educational institutes, followed by retail activity, the return of…

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