The European Parliament is expected to adopt today the Resolution in Support of the Short-Stay Visa Waiver for citizens of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, to be effective on December 19, 2009.
Tanja Faion, the Rapporteur for Visa Liberalisation for the three countries of Western Balkans, expressed her satisfaction with the expected decision to grant visa waivers and noted that the citizens fo the three countries have been isolated by the existing visa regime and that they did enjoy greater rights and freedom of travel in former Yugoslavia.