COLD WAR IN BRUSSELS SURROUNDING THE VISAS
admin1 – May 21, 2013 – 1:16pm

Visas will be reintroduced, visas will not be reintroduced – this is the dilemma in the European Union that is hard to follow from Macedonia after certain member-states since 2009 began to demand establishment of a safety mechanism which will reintroduce the visas for the citizens from Western Balkan due to the large asylum demands, Utrinski Vesnik writes. Although publically all apostrophized countries state that they do not demand reintroduction of visas but “establishment of a safety mechanism,” the topic cannot be closed regardless of the fact that the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs already categorically said “no”. On Monday, Deutsche Welle reported news that with a letter, the Ministers of Interior of Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Great Britain demanded the topic to be put on the daily agenda at the June meeting of the Council of Justice and Home Affairs.