US EditionEU Ministers Agree New Rules Around Suspending Visa-Free Travel
New EU rules extend initial visa suspension to 12 months and lower thresholds for crime and asylum irregularities to combat security threats and abuses, EU officials said.
- On Monday the EU Council agreed new rules to let the EU revoke visa-free status for countries that do not align with its visa policy, effective 20 days after publication in the EU's Official Journal.
- A standing suspension mechanism already lets member states act, but suspensions have been rare, applied only to Russia, Belarus and Vanuatu; the latter’s revocation linked to an investor citizenship scheme.
- Ministers of the EU Council agreed technical changes including raising the initial suspension period from 9 to 12 months with a further 24-month extension and lowering the threshold to 30 per cent, adding citizenship-by-investment schemes, human-rights violations, and hostile acts as grounds.
- The new rules allow immediate targeted measures, enabling suspensions for serious human-rights violations focused on government officials or other targeted groups, expanding EU leverage beyond Russia, Belarus, and Vanuatu.
- The measures take effect 20 days after publication in the EU's Official Journal and could affect travel for citizens of many visa‑exempt countries, impacting relations with targeted states.
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EU ministers agree new rules around suspending visa-free travel
European affairs ministers gave the go ahead this week to new rules that will make it easier to suspend the right to visa-free travel for non-EU countries under certain circumstances.
The Council of the European Union has approved new rules on the suspension of visa-free travel, which will make it easier for third-country nationals to travel to the EU without a visa. According to the Council's statement, the new amendments will allow the EU to act more quickly and decisively in cases of abuse of visa-free travel by a country or "circumvention of the interests of the EU". "Once the changes enter into force, the EU will be able…
The European Union (EU) Council has approved a regulation that makes it easier to suspend visa-free travel to the Schengen Area for third-country nationals found to have violated human rights or not complied with international court decisions.
The EU will be able to remove a visa-free country that will not comply with the EU visa policy.
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