Blocked supply chains and badly treated essential transport workers, from inside or outside the EU, will hinder Europe’s fight against the pandemic. EU countries have agreed to tighten travel restrictions as they are facing a third wave of the pandemic with an increase in infections and more virulent strains of the virus. EU governments gathered in the European Council to adopt two recommendations on a coordinated approach to restrictions on the free movement of people and goods within the EU and transport workers coming from outside the EU.