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Visas for Russians EU migration chief raises alarm over policy
The Guardian
|November 22, 2024
The EU's top official in migration has said she is concerned about its visa policy that allowed nearly 450,000 Russians to Visit Europe in 2023.
Ylva Johansson, who is standing down as the EU's migration and home affairs commissioner, told journalists the EU's Russian Visa guidelines might need to become "a bit sharper".
In 2023, states in Europe's border-free Schengen zone issued 448,890 Visas to Russian nationals, a reduction after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine but, Johansson said, still "a significant number".
She is apprehensive about potential security threats in the context of cases of sabotage and espionage, including arson attacks, the posting of incendiary devices, and an assassination plot targeting the head of a German defence company.
This story is from the November 22, 2024 edition of The Guardian.
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