Serbia "step away" from scrapping of visas

Another European Commission expert report will be needed before Serbia could count on finding its place on the so-called white Schengen list.

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Sunday, 24.05.2009.

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Another European Commission expert report will be needed before Serbia could count on finding its place on the so-called white Schengen list. This is according to an article in today's edition of Novi Sad daily Dnevnik, which quotes its Brussels sources. Serbia "step away" from scrapping of visas The same sources also said that the report can be expected "in late July or September". "We are close to the goal, but an additional effort of the Serbian authorities is needed," an anonymous EU expert on visa liberalization told the newspaper. According to him, the chances that the visa regime the EU has imposed on Serbians could be lifted in the first half of 2010 "have not been compromised". The daily also writes that EU interior ministers commented a recent EC report "very specifically": Serbia has made progress, but it still needs to meet all the conditions and required visa liberalization standards.

Serbia "step away" from scrapping of visas

The same sources also said that the report can be expected "in late July or September".

"We are close to the goal, but an additional effort of the Serbian authorities is needed," an anonymous EU expert on visa liberalization told the newspaper.

According to him, the chances that the visa regime the EU has imposed on Serbians could be lifted in the first half of 2010 "have not been compromised".

The daily also writes that EU interior ministers commented a recent EC report "very specifically": Serbia has made progress, but it still needs to meet all the conditions and required visa liberalization standards.

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