EU Travel at the end-of-year [closed]

I'm a brazilian passport holder with a French residence permit living in France. We now have a nationwide lockdown here which will be lifted the 15th, being replaced by a curfew.

I would like to know whether it is possible to travel to other countries within the EU/Switzerland during the Christmas holidays at the end of the year. The French government made some exceptions on the curfew for the special days. Is there any quarantine imposed?

I am mostly interested in Germany, but to make this question also useful for other community users I would also like to ask the situation on Austria, Italy and Switzerland.

Best Answer

Entry to Germany from EU countries for any reason is permitted as of now (December 2nd 2020):

No pandemic-related travel restrictions apply to travellers entering Germany from another member state of the European Union or from the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Iceland. The current travel restrictions apply to travellers entering from countries that do not belong to the EU and are not listed in the previous sentence.

However, all travellers must follow the quarantine rules of the relevant federal state of Germany and the digital registration procedure for registration upon entry.

As stated on the website of the Auswärtiges Amt, you must fill out the online registration form before you enter Germany, and you must quarantine for 10 days. The quarantine can be ended earlier if you get a negative PCR test. This test must be taken no earlier than 5 days after arriving into Germany. The quarantine regulations are slightly different in the different federal states (Länder), so you should check the regulations of your own state.

Hotels in Germany are closed for touristic travelers until January 10th. Some states (Länder) plan to open hotels between December 23rd and January 1st for family visits, other states do not plan to do this. That link includes this information, but these openings are just plans, as they have not been implemented yet. The situation has been changing almost every week, so all the information in this answer might become obsolete soon.