EU's vote to allow Kosovo visa-free travel postponed

EU's vote to allow Kosovo visa-free travel postponed

Fajon made the decision to postpone the vote due to Kosovo's insufficient progress in meeting the last requirement, in particular, ratification of an agreement on the border with Montenegro, said a statement released by her office.

"I have decided to postpone for September a vote for a visa-free regime for Kosovo, regretting that Kosovo failed to make sufficient progress in fulfilling the last criterion, particularly the ratification of a border regime with Montenegro. I sincerely hope that the Kosovo parliament will ratify the agreement as soon as possible, before the summer recess, to make it possible for me to continue the voting procedure next fall," she explained.

Fajon said in a press release that after the talks with European and Kosovo officials that "the ball is in the Kosovo parliament's court," as to a visa-free regime for the Kosovo citizens traveling to the Schengen area.

Fajon said that she firmly believed that, following a ratification in the assembly of Kosovo, the European Parliament would by the end of 2016 back visa-free travel for Kosovo.