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The European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstr?m handed over to the Kosovo government the roadmap to visa liberalisation.

EU countries may temporarily reintroduce border controls within the Schengen visa-free in the case of a large influx of illegal immigrants.

EU home affairs ministers have unanimously approved plans to reform the bloc’s passport free travel Schengen treaty.

The heads of the border agencies of Ukraine and Moldova have signed a protocol on the organization of joint patrols of the Ukrainian-Moldovan border, the press service of the Southern Regional Department of the State Border Service of Ukraine told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.

ead of Information Department - Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Savinykh reported that the government had adopted a new version of the visa rules providing for simplification of procedures for issuing visas.

An agreement between the governments of Ukraine and Poland on the abolition of charges for issuing national visas is to be signed during the working visit of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko to Poland that started on June 6.

The European Union and Georgia started talks on June 4 on a plan to introduce a visa-free travel regime between the EU and the Caucasus nation, said the European commissioner for home affairs, Cecilia Malmstrom.

Second round of visa negotiations between EU and Azerbaijan has been holding in Geneva, Belgium on May 31st-June 1st, 2012.

The German Embassy in Ukraine issued 300,000 visas to Ukrainians in 2011, embassy officials say.

The number of Schengen visas issued to the citizens of Ukraine in recent years has been growing, and the number of refusals decreasing, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said.