After the Pandemic, the EU Must Prove Its Worth

Young supporters of Belarus’s opposition carry a European Union flag at a rally in Minsk on Oct. 14, 2007. Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images

June 9, 2021, 3:00 PM

As the summer holiday season approaches and with European Union digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates set to come into use on July 1, it is a race against time. European leaders must encourage enough of their citizens to sign up for available COVID-19 vaccines to ensure reopening travel across the EU doesn’t lead to a new surge in cases.