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EU lawmakers green-light visa free travel for Kosovo
====================================================

<span
class="Timestamp Component-root-0-2-23 null null" data-key="timestamp"
data-source="2023-04-18T12:29:07Z"
title="2023-04-18 12:29:07 - Tue Apr 18 2023 12:29:07 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)">April
18, 2023 GMT

The European flag, left, flies Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at the European
Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois
Badias)

The European flag, left, flies Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at the European
Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois
Badias)

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers on Tuesday gave the green light
for citizens from Kosovo to travel freely in Europe without visas from
next year.

The move means that Kosovo’s citizens will be able to travel in the
27-nation Schengen passport free area, which includes most EU countries
plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, for periods of up
to 90 days every six months.

Citizens in the Schengen countries will be able to visit Kosovo without
visas too. The former Serbian territory was the last country in the
Western Balkans region not to have such travel arrangements with the EU.

Dutch Socialist lawmaker Thijs Reuten, who chaperoned the process
through the European Parliament, said the move “finally enables the
people of Kosovo to easily travel, visit relatives and do business in
the EU.”

“But it is more than that,” he added in a statement, as the assembly met
in Strasbourg France. “This milestone is also an important foundation
for the future and ever-closer cooperation between the EU and Kosovo.”

Kosovo wants to join the EU and is slowly bringing its laws into line
with the bloc’s standards.

The visa exemption will enter force as soon as the EU’s new electronic
travel system is in place and in any case in 2024.

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