{"id":1302992,"date":"2025-10-07T16:40:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/visa-free-regime-for-ukraine-under-threat-eu-changes-rules-for-countries-with-violations\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:40:38","slug":"visa-free-regime-for-ukraine-under-threat-eu-changes-rules-for-countries-with-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/visa-free-regime-for-ukraine-under-threat-eu-changes-rules-for-countries-with-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa-free regime for Ukraine under threat? EU changes rules for countries with violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, October 7, the European Parliament approved a law that significantly simplifies the procedure for suspending visa-free travel for states that pose a threat to EU security or violate fundamental human rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported by<\/a> a correspondent of “European Truth” from Strasbourg.<\/p>\n

The bill was voted in favor by 518 MPs, with 96 against and 24 abstentions. The document now needs final approval by the EU Council.<\/p>\n

According to the new mechanism, the rules apply to 61 countries whose citizens currently have the right to visa-free entry to the Schengen area for up to 90 days within a 180-day period \u2014 among them Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Among the grounds for suspending visa-free travel may now be the so-called hybrid threats: “instrumentalization” of migration, citizenship-for-investment programs (“golden passports”), inconsistency with EU visa policy, as well as violations of the UN Charter, international or humanitarian law.<\/p>\n

Under the new rules, the European Commission will have the right to initiate the procedure for suspending visa-free travel, either independently or at the request of a third party. At the first stage, a temporary suspension will be possible, and later, an indefinite ban is possible.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, the European Union has decided to tighten rules on the movement of Russian diplomats within the Schengen area.<\/a> This was in response to a series of acts of sabotage, which, according to intelligence, were carried out by Russian special services officers acting under the cover of diplomatic status.<\/p>\n

As reported, the Baltic countries, Northern Europe and Poland plan to ban Russian citizens who participated in the war against Ukraine from entering the Schengen zone.<\/a> The joint decision has already been approved by the interior ministers of the respective states.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, October 7, the European Parliament approved a law that significantly simplifies the procedure for suspending visa-free travel for states that pose a threat to EU security or violate fundamental human rights. This was reported by a correspondent of “European Truth” from Strasbourg. The bill was voted in favor by 518 MPs, with 96 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1303144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76870],"class_list":["post-1302992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1303144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}