# Commission tightens single-market enforcement during COVID border checks

Date: 2020

In March 2020 internal-market services pressed member states not to fragment goods flows. [Breton](/people/thierry-breton) later fronted enforcement rhetoric. A letter is not a truck already moving.

## People

- Thierry Breton: https://factrail.ai/people/thierry-breton

## Drivers

- Cost-of-Living Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/econ-cost-of-living-pressure

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-borders-idUSKBN20X1G4/
- https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_468

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eu-breton-single-market-enforcement