U.S., EU Discuss Restarting Travel After Bloc Considers a Ban

June 24, 2020, 4:09 PM UTC

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said the Trump administration is working with the European Union over how to restart travel suspended by the Covid-19 pandemic, even as the bloc weighs whether to exclude Americans from an initial reopening plan.

The U.S. doesn’t want to reopen in a way that “jeopardizes the United States from people traveling here and we certainly don’t want to cause problems anyplace else,” Pompeo told reporters Wednesday. He said he was confident a solution could be figured out in the coming weeks.

Pompeo’s remarks come as diplomats from the 27-nation EU begin developing criteria for lifting ...

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