{"id":279406,"date":"2025-07-21T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279406\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:41:08","slug":"eu-seeks-to-triple-entry-fee-for-short-term-visa-exempt-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279406\/","title":{"rendered":"EU seeks to triple entry fee for short-term\u00a0visa-exempt visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By&nbspVincenzo Genovese<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n Published on
\n 21\/07\/2025 – 6:30 GMT+2\n <\/p>\n

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The European Commission has proposed bumping the fee for visa-exempt travellers arriving in the bloc for short stays from \u20ac7 to \u20ac20, a senior EU official has confirmed.<\/p>\n

Visa exempt travel is set to be available from the last quarter of 2026 through the \u201cEuropean Travel Information and Authorisation System\u201d (ETIAS) to 30 European countries\u2014namely, all EU member states except Ireland, plus Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland.<\/p>\n

An ETIAS authorisation is required for short-term stays (up to 90 days) in these countries by nationals of visa-exempt states<\/a>\u00a0such as the UK, US, Canada, Brazil, and Australia.<\/p>\n

The new ETIAS fee system will be assigned to the EU budget.<\/p>\n

Currently, the cost for visa exempt arrival is set at \u20ac7 for applicants, with exemptions for those under 18 or over 70 years old at the time of application. However, the European Commission now wants to triple the fee to \u20ac20 in order to raise additional funds.<\/p>\n

The proposal accompanies the presentation<\/a>\u00a0of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the EU\u2019s long-term budget for the period 2028\u20132034, which foresees a significant increase in revenues generated through so-called \u201cown resources\u201d\u2014that is, taxes collected at EU level.<\/p>\n

In addition to five new own resources proposals pitched by the Commission last week, plans to raise the ETIAS fee are set to generate an additional \u20ac300 million per year.<\/p>\n

The Commission has submitted the proposal to the Council and the European Parliament, which have to endorse it, the senior official said. Unlike other own resources, the increase in the ETIAS fee does not require unanimous approval by all EU member states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&nbspVincenzo Genovese Published on 21\/07\/2025 – 6:30 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT The European Commission has proposed bumping the fee for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[105254,2000,12921,7221,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-279406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-digital-visa","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-eu-budget","11":"tag-eu-policy","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114890099178100186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}