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05-03-2013

Germany is Ready to Veto Shengen for Romania and Bulgaria The German government is going to veto Romania and Bulgaria's bid to join the Schengen Area.

27-02-2013

EU presents Action Plan on Visa Liberalisation with Georgia The EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmstr?m presented the Action Plan on Visa Liberalisation with Georgia.

22-01-2013

Ukrainians required to provide fingerprints to get long-term German visas, says Foreign Ministry Germany is to request biometric data from Ukrainian applicants for long-term visas, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s press service reported.

10-01-2013

EU citizens may visit Armenia without visas from now on European Commissioner Stefan Fule expressed his gratitude toward the decision of the Armenian government according to which citizens of the EU member countries will be able to visit Armenia without visas.

09-01-2013

Will the EU reimpose visas for travellers from Balkan countries? “FAKE asylum seekers”, warns a poster in Belgrade airport, “risk everything.” It is three years since Serbs, Macedonians and Montenegrins got the freedom to travel without a visa to Europe’s 26-member Schengen zone.

03-01-2013

Biometric passport start issued after series of preparations Issuance of biometric documents in Ukraine will begin after the completion of preparations, the State Migration Service of Ukraine press service informs.

25-12-2012

Ukrainians can stay without visa in Beijing for three days China has decided to provide the Ukrainian citizens with a 72-hour visa-free transit in Beijing (China) from January 1, 2013, spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry Oleksandr Dikusarov told a briefing.

21-12-2012

Visa requirements negative for Russia-EU economic ties - Putin The existing visa requirements for Russian and EU citizens are holding back the development of economic relations between Russia and the European Union, President Vladimir Putin said.

20-12-2012

Brok: European Parliament ready to work on visa facilitation for Ukrainians The European Parliament is ready to work on the simplification of the visa regime for Ukraine, Chair of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Elmar Brok has said.

17-12-2012

EU and Armenia sign visa facilitation agreement The EU and Armenia signed on Monday a visa facilitation agreement at a ceremony that took place in Brussels.

10-12-2012

EU reaffirms its commitment to achieve visa-free regime with Ukraine The European Union has reaffirmed its intention to establish a visa-free regime with Ukraine.

10-12-2012

Ukraine substantially progressed toward liberalization of visa regime with EU - expert Ukraine has substantially progressed in the direction of fulfillment of the first (legislative - Author) phase of the Action Plan on liberalization of the visa regime with the European Union.

10-12-2012

Ukraine substantially progressed toward liberalization of visa regime with EU - expert Ukraine has substantially progressed in the direction of fulfillment of the first (legislative - Author) phase of the Action Plan on liberalization of the visa regime with the European Union.

04-12-2012

The EU will not prohibit the entry of Ukrainians with old passports, - foreign Ministry Ukrainians and in the future will be able to enter the EU member-countries on the basis of a valid travel passport.

04-12-2012

Foreign Ministry: Ukrainians to travel to EU without biometric passports Ukrainian citizens will travel to EU member states on the basis of valid foreign passports (without the requirement that they be biometric) until the visa-free regime between the EU and Ukraine is introduced.

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11-04-2010

Designing a roadmap towards visa free regime between the EU and Ukraine

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Visa regime, which is rather complicated in many cases, will be still hampering human contacts for a while. It will also serve as an obvious factor of division of Europe. Moreover, in the nearest future the number of European nations living outside EU visa barrier, will be significantly smaller due to Western Balkan countries; this number will embrace only several post Soviet Eastern European nations, including Ukraine. Such situation does not benefit to optimistic outlooks, it also causes natural disappointment within Ukrainian society, and such disappointment has been accumulating over the last years. At the same time it is obvious that a certain path consisting of a number of concrete steps should be taken towards visa free regime. At this point the path comprises one of principle components in official political dialogue between Ukraine and European Union, it is also viewed as the real perspective, unlike the situation over the last years when the whole Europe has been considering introduction of visa free regime for Ukrainian citizens only theoretically.

For the first time political commitment concerning the perspective of visa free regime between EU and Ukraine was documented in the Agreement on the Facilitation of the Issuance of Visas between EU and Ukraine signed in June 2007. In September 2008 in accordance with the decision of EU Ukraine Paris Summit, the parties launched visa dialogue with the final aim of full waiving of visa obligations for the citizens of Ukraine on behalf of EU. The comprehensive document should
summarize the outcomes of the first stage of visa dialogue and define concrete priorities and steps which should be taken.