Publications
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Access to Europe in a Globalised World: Assessing the EU’s Common Visa Policy in the Light of the Stockholm Guidelines
"This paper is written against the background of the on-going evaluation of the EU Visa Code and an emerging paradigm shift in EU visa policy with visas becoming a tool … Read more...
Visa-Free Travel for the EU’s Eastern Partners: Time to Act
Visa facilitation agreements with Moldova, Ukraine and the Western Balkans entered into force in January 2008. In the same year, Ukraine and the Western Balkan countries … Read more...
EU-Russia Visa Facilitation and Liberalization: State of Play and Prospects for the Future
On the occasion of the May 2003 Saint Petersburg EU-Russia Summit, the EU and Russia agreed to examine the conditions for visa-free travel as a “long-term … Read more...
Resolution of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Towards a visa free Europe
The visa liberalisation process has become one of the most powerful tools of European Union (EU) policy in steering fundamental reforms in the Eastern Partnership … Read more...
Eastern Partnership Visa Liberalisation Index Is Available
The liberalisation of the European Union visa regime is one of the priorities of the EU Eastern Partnership initiative covering Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, … Read more...
Contribution to the public consultation “Improving procedures for obtaining short-stay ‘Schengen’ visas”
Dear Sir or Madam, as a coordinator of academic cooperation programs of the Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, with Ukrainian … Read more...
The recommendations on UE visa policy and practices
Working Group 1 on “Democracy, Human Rights, Good Governance and Stability” held its annual meeting on 14 May 2013 in Brussels gathering over 50 representatives of … Read more...
Ashton regrets death sentence in Belarus – only country in Europe applying capital punishment
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has voiced regret over the death sentence recently handed down to an individual by the Mahilyow Regional Court in Belarus. In … Read more...
Recommendations on the process of facilitation and liberalisation of the visa regime between the European Union and the Russian Federation
The Steering Committee of EU-Russia Civil Society Forum on the basis of the work done by academic and NGO members of the Expert Visa Group (involving the Stefan Batory … Read more...
EU-Russia Common Spaces Progress Report – 2012
This report outlines progress made during 2012 on the implementation of the EU-Russia Common Spaces and of the Road Maps adopted in 2005. It also looks forward to the … Read more...