BBC News
By Kevin Connolly
image captionTesting of tourists is likely to remain widespread in Europe this summer
Europe could be on the brink of a roaring twenties-style summer to remember, with budget airline flights packed and beachside bars brim-full of happy tourists.
Or, it faces another gloomy holiday season of travel restrictions, quarantine rules and a locked-down leisure industry.
In a few weeks from now we will know which it is to be - but the policy decisions which will shape the outcome are already being taken.
One big question is whether EU member states will be content to leave decision-making to the European Commission in Brussels - which has bungled the vaccine-buying programme - or simply take matters into their own hands.
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