Contents tagged with visa-free regime
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European Commission submits legislative proposal to abolish visas for Georgian citizens
On Wednesday, the European Commission announced they had submitted a legislative proposal for the liberalization of visas for Georgian citizens.
The European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, said this at the press conference in Brussels, according to the Evropeyskaya Pravda newspaper.
"The Commission proposed today to abolish visas for Georgian citizens. The Commission proposes to include Georgia in the list of countries with which the EU has a visa-free regime," he said. …
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European Commission postpones decision on visa-free regime for Ukraine
The European Commission will submit a legislative initiative to abolish visas for Georgia. This will be submitted to the Council of the EU next week. Such an initiative for Ukraine, however, has been postponed. This was reported via Twitter by a correspondent of Radio Liberty in Brussels, Ricard Yozvyak.
“The proposal for the visa liberalization of Georgia will be made by the European Commission next week. Ukraine will probably have to wait until after the referendum on the Association …
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EU expects Ukraine to implement two more reforms before visa-free regime can be established
The European Union expects full implementation of two out of five commitments in the so-called “visa-free” package from Kiev.
A European diplomat said this to the correspondent of UKRINFORM in Brussels, commenting on the package of "visa-free" legislation approved by the Verkhovna Rada last week.
"Yes, indeed, there are still two important questions left: the National Anti-Corruption Agency and the law on electronic declarations," the diplomat said.
At the same time, he believes that the …
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Visegrad Group says it's ready to facilitate visa-free regime between Ukraine and EU
The Visegrad Group (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic) has declared its readiness to facilitate a visa-free regime between Ukraine and the European Union, as reported by RBC Ukraine.
Representatives of the four members of the Group are currently in Lviv attending a meeting on energy efficiency.
“The Visegrad partners position remains unchanged with respect to the support of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and [the group] expressed its readiness to support …
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The EU is not satisfied with Ukraine's progress in fulfilling obligations for visa-free regime
The EU is dissatisfied with Ukraine’s fulfillment of all legal obligations concerning the adoption of visa-free regime in 2016, according to a Facebook post by Sergey Leshchenko, member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, after a meeting with the diplomats of the EU agencies in Brussels.
“More precisely, Ukraine has fulfilled three of the five requirements for adoption. The EU considered the amendments to three acts made last week but the EU did not consider a declaration law, according to …
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Ukraine-EU Visa-Free Regime may Appear before the Middle of March
The European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, said that the Commission's proposal to abolish visas for Ukrainians may appear before the end of March, as reported by Radіo Svoboda.
"The President and the Prime Minister still have some commitments to fulfill, but we expect that we will obtain those reports very soon, be able to evaluate them, and during the first quarter of this year we will propose visa liberalization," he said.
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Turkish citizens no longer have visa-free entry to Russia
Russia suspended the visa-free policy with Turkey effective the 1st of January 2016. The Presidential decree suspending the visa-free policy with Turkey is now in force. As noted by RSN Ankara, in response to Moscow's decision, Turkey is now refusing visas for Russian citizens. The bilateral visa-free agreement has been in place since 2011.
As previously reported, Russian authorities announced the abolition of the visa-free regime after a Russian Su-24 bomber was shot down by the Turkish Air …