– We are now seeing an raise in Russian tourists to vacationer places in Lithuania, arriving in the region with visas issued by other EU customers, wrote Gabrielius Landsbergis, Minister of Overseas Affairs in Lithuania in a post in Politics.eu.
– SOLIDARITY: Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis calls on the EU to introduce visa refusal for Russian travelers in solidarity with countries that are now refusing vacationer visas to Russians. International Minister Anniken Huitfeldt achieved her colleague in Kristiansand before this year. Photograph: Tor Erik Schrøder / NTB
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He asks for solidarity with the rest of the EU, to exclude vacationers from Russia, so that they are unable to “delight in a slice of the European way of lifestyle, while supporting President Vladimir Putin’s war”.
Can journey freely
The Baltic nations around the world in unique have recognized an influx of Russian tourists following the war that began in February. Whilst each Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Poland have stopped issuing vacationer visas to Russians.
If you get a visa for an EU country, you can travel visa-cost-free all through most of Europe. The visa will utilize to all Schengen cooperation international locations, which includes Norway and Switzerland.
The international minister warns his colleagues that this case could divide the EU. In the course of the war in Ukraine, the EU labored challenging to continue to be united from Russia. While the debates on the 6 different sanctions packages versus Russia have been partly tricky.
Finland will limit the range of vacationer visas to ten percent of present day purposes, simply because a full ban is not legally feasible below Finnish regulation. Denmark wants a joint European ban on issuing visas to Russian visitors. Sweden has not nonetheless made the decision, but will go over the issue with Swedish European Commissioner for Justice, Ylva Johansson in September. Greece also hasn’t decided what the region will imagine about vacationer visas.
– EU countries that carry on to grant visas to Russians are not only ignoring the atrocities committed towards Ukrainians, but are also “inviting” Russian vacationers to the Baltic states, suggests Foreign Minister Landsbergis.
Half a million Russians
Previous yr, all-around three million individuals applied for a Schengen visa. Of these, 536,000 had been Russian and only a few percent of programs from Russia were rejected.
Both Portugal and Germany are against the EU ban on vacationer visas for Russians, as it could make it much more tough for Russians to flee the nation.
– THE PUTIN WAR: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes it is erroneous to punish the Russians for a war that is Putin’s war. Final Monday he visited Oslo and Primary Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Photograph: Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB
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– This is not the Russian people’s war, it is Putin’s war, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in Oslo on Monday.
Norway even now grants tourist visas to Russians, but Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt warned that visa refusal could be suitable.
The EU has presently blacklisted a number of Russians for visas, such as diplomats, some bureaucrats and company executives, in particular those with close ties to the Kremlin.
The European Fee is doing work to achieve a typical placement for the full EU, which takes care of Russians who require a visa for humanitarian motives. The concern will be lifted at the assembly of EU overseas ministers in Prague on 31 August.
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