Originally Posted by GUWonder

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.



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.