And it is in practical terms harder to enforce those bans even against other Schengen countries’ citizens because ordinarily these countries don’t allocate a lot of resources to seal internal national borders. And even at extraordinary times where they allocate more resources to patrol national borders internal to Schengen, there are often practical ways to cross these internal borders without being stopped and identified as being subject to a ban.

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Originally Posted by Badenoch

In any event, if member states, Schengen or otherwise, can close their borders to any non-residents including those from other Schengen countries it seems the Commission is getting a bit ahead of itself to declare, "we will have a summer tourist season."

They will have a summer tourist season internally. It may well be Balkanized internally, but enough of these countries’ authorities are with it that the statement about having a summer tourist season is correct and will hold up for those inside the Schengen area already or otherwise currently admissible to the Schengen area.