{"id":551310,"date":"2025-11-05T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551310\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:18:11","slug":"eu-set-to-further-tighten-visa-rules-for-russians-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551310\/","title":{"rendered":"EU set to further tighten visa rules for Russians \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

However, visa issuance remains a national competence, meaning that while the European Commission can make the process harder, it cannot impose a total, sweeping ban on Russian visitors.<\/p>\n

In 2024, more than half a million Russians received Schengen visas, according to data from the Commission \u2014 a marked increase from 2023, though still far below prewar levels, with more than 4 million issued in 2019. Hungary, France, Spain and Italy continue to liberally grant tourist visas to Russian nationals.<\/p>\n

The new, stricter rules, part of a package of measures intended to reduce the number of Russians entering the bloc, are expected to be formally adopted and implemented this week.<\/p>\n

Separately and as part of its 19th package of sanctions, the EU plans to restrict the movements<\/a> of Russian diplomats, requiring them to inform states in advance if they travel across the Schengen Area as a way to counter the Kremlin\u2019s \u201cincreasingly hostile intelligence activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Commission is also set to unveil its new bloc-wide visa strategy<\/a> next month, which will set out common recommendations, including encouraging member countries to better leverage their visa policy against hostile countries and implement stricter criteria for Russians and other nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, visa issuance remains a national competence, meaning that while the European Commission can make the process harder,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[767,48480,36,2190,2199,332,9322,104,657,6863,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-551310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-baltics","9":"tag-citizenship","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-hungary","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-russian-politics","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-visas","18":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115498706898871600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551310","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=551310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}