PRAGUE: The European Union should ban Russian tourists, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday (Aug 31), urging a step the bloc's foreign ministers gathered in Prague are unlikely to take due to deep divisions on the matter. Kuleba also proposed a program in which Russian soldiers
PRAGUE: The European Union should ban Russian tourists, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday , urging a step the bloc's foreign ministers gathered in Prague are unlikely to take due to deep divisions on the matter.
The EU ministers are expected to agree in principle on suspending a visa facilitation agreement with Moscow - meaning Russians would have to wait longer, and pay more, for visas - but not on an outright EU travel ban. In their joint memo, France and Germany said that, while security checks were needed, students, artists and others should still be allowed to travel to the EU.
"Until such measures are in place on the EU level, we will consider setting up temporary measures on the national level in order to address imminent public security issues related to the increased influx of Russian citizens across our borders," the FT quoted them as saying.
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