BELGRADE -- Serbia is set to initial agreements on visa relaxation and readmission with the EU in Brussels today.
Source: B92
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Businesspeople, elementary, secondary school and university students, employees in the civil service are among those to enjoy the benefits of today’s agreement, Miščević said.
Participants in sports competitions, patients, journalists, NGO representatives , close family members of those legally employed in the EU, lawyers, architects, doctors, representatives of religious communities and tourists who use the services of tourism agencies with credentials in the EU countries, also stand to benefit.
Miščević explained that EU member states must first authorize the European Commission in order for the agreements to be signed, expected to take place by September. Both the Serbian and the European parliaments will then ratify the agreements.
Miščević said Serbia had no precise data on the number of its citizens currently illegally residing in the EU, and added it was the country’s constitutional obligation to take them back.
1 million unemployed Serbs working in the EU can remit billions of euros to Serbia every year.How much monetary value does freer travel have for the categories of people included in the agreement.A careful cost/benefit analysis should be done to quantify which makes more economic sense.Why repatriate Serbs actually earning REAL money in the EU for the benfit of more convenient travel for a selected grouping of people?
(luciano, 12 April 2007 00:20)
Many of the illegal immigrants are Roma from Kosovo, and why should Serbia be responsible for those expelled from the UN/NATO protectorate?
Serbia needs to have proof that they are not from Kosovo before they can be flown to Belgrade.
Serbia can't absorb the number of refugees and displaced it already has, while Germany and the other countries have the means to provide the basics for refugees created, in part by NATO bombing and UN occupation of Kosovo.
They are the ones who claimed they bombed to protect multiculturalism and multiethnicity.
(ida, 12 April 2007 19:27)
One million unemployed Serbs cannot circulate billions of euros for Serbia annually. That would bean that each serb generates one million euros each in salary and expenditures...just to equal one billion. by the way, there are only 600,000 unemployed serbs...stop counting Kosovo and Metohija in our statistics.
(Vasilije Mikic, 13 April 2007 06:42)