Eu Tightens Travel Rules For Russians But Does Not Issue Full Visa Ban News About The Russia Ukraine War
The bloc, however, avoided agreeing to an EU-wide visa ban demanded by Ukraine and several other member states. The EU was too divided to agree at this stage on a blanket ban and also left unclear what unilateral measures could be taken by Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland, which share land borders with Russia. to restrict access to Russian visitors. Those five countries welcomed the suspension of Russia’s visa facilitation agreement as a step in the right direction, but four of them stressed that more needs to be done to “drastically” limit the number of visas issued to Russians as well traveling to the bloc since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February....