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In the plenary session of the European Parliament on Wednesday, the reports on Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were approved a month ago in the Foreign Policy Commission, will be voted on.
The vote follows the debate held on Tuesday night in the EP on these reports.
During the debate, regarding Kosovo, the calls to liberalize visas and make progress in the dialogue with Serbia, which is mediated by the European Union, dominated.
The report on Kosovo was prepared by the German deputy, Viola von Cramon. During the speech in the debate on July 5, von Cramon said that he welcomes Kosovo’s positions regarding the war in Ukraine and called once again to liberalize visas for citizens of Kosovo.
“The citizens of Kosovo are also aware that I personally and the European Parliament have repeatedly raised the need for the immediate liberalization of visas, which has been prolonged despite the fact that Kosovo has met all the conditions”, von Cramon said.
With the exception of some MPs from the ranks of the extreme right, most of the legislators have supported the liberalization of visas for Kosovo and this will also be in the final version of the text of the report that will be voted on Wednesday.
The text is expected to remain more or less as it was approved in the Foreign Policy Committee. In the plenary session, according to the deputies, it will only be challenging to vote on an amendment requiring that the comprehensive agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, which must come out of the dialogue, also include mutual recognition.
This request was approved in the Foreign Policy Commission, even though this was opposed by the rapporteur for Serbia, Vladimir Bilicik, who is from Slovakia, a country that does not recognize Kosovo’s independence.
There are now efforts to remove the wording that includes mutual recognition during the plenary vote.
The text of the report also repeats the call for the five EU countries that do not recognize Kosovo to do so.
The five EU countries that do not recognize Kosovo are: Spain, Slovakia, Romania, Cyprus and Greece.
In the report, Serbia will be asked to support the EU’s stance towards Russia and the aggression towards Ukraine, including the sanctions that the European Union has imposed against Moscow.
Serbia is the only country in the region that has not imposed sanctions on Moscow, after the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
Otherwise, such resolutions of the European Parliament, which are approved once a year in the form of individual reports for the countries of the Western Balkan region, have a political importance, but they are not binding on the EU member countries.
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