A new PASOS policy brief on visa-liberalisation was released at “Democracy, Partnership, Enlargement – Challenges for Europe, Challenges for the Polish EU Presidency”, the network’s annual policymakers/think-tanks conference 25 November.
The policy study, No shortcuts on the road to freedom of movement for the EU’s Eastern neighbours, was written as part of the PASOS project, Paving the Road towards Visa-free Travel between the Eastern Partnership countries and the EU. The project is being carried out with the support of the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) of Open Society Foundations.
Written by Piotr Kaźmierkiewicz and Nadya Dimitrova, the study identifies opportunities and barriers to the process of visa liberalisation between the European Union (EU) and the states of the Eastern Partnership, in particular Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. Attention is paid to two key factors: technical, involved in the process of adoption, implementation and evaluation of action plans, and political, centering on the will of the two parties (EU and EaP states) to move the process forward and complete it successfully.
