14 minutes agoKosovo with longer expectations for visa liberalisation
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)European Union Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn, during his recent visit to Pristina on Monday we left behind, has suggested to Kosovars that he will most likely not be able to move visa-free to the Schengen Zone by 2020. Until visa-free movement begins in the EU, respectively. [...]
European Union Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn, during his recent visit to Pristina on Monday we left behind, has suggested to Kosovars that he will most likely not be able to move visa-free to the Schengen Zone by 2020.
Until visa-free movement in the EU begins, at the beginning of 2020 respectively, there will be nearly 20 months since the European Commission gave the positive recommendation for abolishing visas for Kosovo after meeting all criteria set for visas.
The EC has given the positive recommendation for abolishing visas for Kosovo on July 18th of this year. Even the European Parliament has voted in favour of liberalisation, while the issue is stuck with the EU Council of Ministers, which has not even put it in the agenda for this Friday's visa liberalisation issue for the country.
But European integration experts have estimated to the newspaper “Voice” that Georgia and Ukraine, the last two countries to have won visa liberalisation in the EU, have been more “rapid” than Kosovo.
