United States calls for EU: Liberalize visas for Kosovars

The committee, through a post on the social Twitter network, recalled that the European Commission's decision on Kosovo, which said conditions for visa liberalisation were met, was taken two years ago.

Calls to the EU to liberalise visas with Kosovo have been added by the United States. Earlier, the White House's special envoy for dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, Richard Green, had urged the EU to liberalise visas with Kosovo.

 

 

The European Commission and the European Parliament had confirmed that Kosovo has fulfilled all criteria for visa liberalisation. But the issue has stalled in the EU Council, where some important states have not agreed to liberalise visas for Kosovo.

Even within EU institutions has increased pressure towards the EU Council. Tens of Eurodeputs through a letter have asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel to decide on the Council's agenda the issue of visa liberalisation for Kosovo.

More than 40 European Parliament deputies have written letters to the president of France, Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, through which they demand that the EU liberalise visas with Kosovo.

These two leaders of EU member states are considered the strongest opponents of visa liberalisation with Kosovo, because their countries have not supported such a decision in the EU Council.

For former German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger, the issue of visa liberalisation with Kosovo is an incomplete EU promise.

“Visa liberalisation for all Kosovo citizens is an unfulfilled EU promise. Long delay in EU credibility is at stake”, Ischinger wrote on Twitter.