{"id":30776,"date":"2022-02-02T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=30776"},"modified":"2022-02-02T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T11:42:37","slug":"lajcak-kosovo-deserves-to-be-granted-a-visa-free-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/lajcak-kosovo-deserves-to-be-granted-a-visa-free-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Lajcak: Kosovo deserves to be granted a visa-free regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI really think that Kosovo deserved to be granted a visa-free regime a long time ago\u201d, declared EU Special Envoy for the dialogue with Serbia, Miroslav Lajcak<\/a> at the end of his three-day visit to Prishtina.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe European Commission has made it very clear that Kosovo fulfilled all the conditions, but you know that this is not related to the talks, but it requires a consensual agreement among 27 member countries\u201d, said the high EU official.<\/p>\n

Lajcak emphasized that it won’t be much longer until travel visas are lifted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only tell you that I raise this issue every time I brief member states and I tell ambassadors in Brussels how painful this is in Kosovo. I truly hope that it will not take much more time until we see a full visa liberalization\u201d, declared Lajcak.<\/p>\n

The voting process for lifting the visa regime with Kosovo has been blocked by the EU Council for years by a large number of countries.<\/p>\n

According to the Croatian EU Presidency, the countries that voted in favor were not enough to achieve the qualified majority vote.<\/p>\n

Lajcak and Escobar unanimously declared<\/a> that the United States and the European Union do not want to impose the establishment of a Serbian republic within the territory of Kosovo.<\/p>\n

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