2 minutes agoEuropean Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission approves Kosovo Report
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)43 eurodeputs have voted in favour, 9 against and 5 have abstained in the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission vote for Kosovo. In the text of the report presented by Rapporteur Violet Von Cremon is called on the EU Council to urgently make the decision on visa liberalisation for citizens. [...]
In the text of the report presented by Rapporteur Violet Von Cremon is called on the EU Council to urgently make the decision on visa liberalisation for Kosovo citizens.
Also included in this report is support for Kosovo's application for membership in the Council of Europe and the aspirations to join the European Union, as well as the call for the five European bloc member states, which have not yet recognised Kosovo's independence, to do so.
According to the document, expected to be discussed on June 14th, the European Parliament is pleased that Kosovo has joined all EU positions on Russia's aggression against Ukraine, declared sanctions, and with a separate resolution in the Assembly has condemned this aggression.
More than 300 amendments have been submitted for the report on Kosovo. A large number of them have been submitted by several deputies from Spain, who have proposed that all references treating Kosovo as a state be removed from the report.
Meanwhile, some MPs from the far right, mostly from France and Germany, have proposed that, instead of calling for visa liberalisation, the <x0-visuals should not be liberalised in the near future”.
After voting on the Commission for Foreign Policy, reports of all three states will be discussed and adopted as European Parliament resolutions.
These resolutions have political weight, but are not binding for EU member states.
