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.
During its regular meeting on January 18th the Council of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels discussed the situation in Ukraine.
At the end of 2015, the European Commission said that Ukraine has fulfilled all the criteria for liberalizing the EU visa regime for Ukrainian citizens. At the beginning of 2016 the EU and Ukraine began a comprehensive free trade area.