{"id":135562,"date":"2024-11-22T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-migration-chief-raises-alarm-over-russian-visas-amid-security-fears\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T07:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:40:01","slug":"eu-migration-chief-raises-alarm-over-russian-visas-amid-security-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/eu-migration-chief-raises-alarm-over-russian-visas-amid-security-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"EU migration chief raises alarm over Russian visas amid security fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135562\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The EU\u2019s top official in migration has said she is concerned about the bloc\u2019s visa policy that allowed nearly 450,000 Russians to visit Europe last year. Ylva Johansson, who is standing down as the EU\u2019s migration and home affairs commissioner at the end of the month, told journalists the EU\u2019s Russian visa guidelines might need to become \u201ca bit sharper\u201d. In 2023, states in Europe\u2019s border-free Schengen zone issued 448,890 visas to Russian nationals, a drastic reduction after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but, Johansson said, still \u201ca significant number, so that concerns me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She is apprehensive about potential security threats in the context of mounting 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. Speaking to MEPs in September, Johansson said the EU member states were confronted daily by the Russian threat: \u201cThis is not the time to be soft on security, potentially undermining the security of the entire Schengen area,\u201d she told the parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Following Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU froze a visa-facilitation deal with Moscow, leading to an 89% fall in the number of Schengen visas issued to Russians when compared with 2019, before Covid disrupted international travel. Russians used to be the largest group of successful applicants for Schengen visas, but they have fallen behind the citizens of China, Turkey, India, and Morocco. But travel has yet to dry up. In 2023, Italy, France, Spain and Greece, countries with large tourism industries, processed more than 80% of visa applications from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The figures are likely to anger central and eastern European governments that pushed for a ban on Russian tourist visas in 2022, which France and Germany resisted. Johansson said she had initiated a review of the Russian visa guidelines, although it would fall to her successor, Magnus Brunner, to decide. She said there were \u201chuge differences\u201d in the issuance of Russian visas, and the review would need to find out whether member states implemented the guidelines in the same way. She suggested changes to guidelines were likely: \u201cDoes this call for, you know, some revision? That\u2019s my guess. But it\u2019s for my successor to decide, of course, after we have finalised this assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish commissioner has also been investigating complaints from EU member states that Hungary is undermining European security, following Budapest\u2019s decision to make it easier for Russians and Belarusians to obtain work permits, giving them access to the entire 29-country Schengen zone.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/21\/eu-migration-chief-raises-alarm-over-russian-visas-amid-security-fears\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/21\/eu-migration-chief-raises-alarm-over-russian-visas-amid-security-fears\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/eu-migration-chief-raises-alarm-over-russian-visas-amid-security-fears\/\">EU migration chief raises alarm over Russian visas amid security fears<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,17032,588],"class_list":["post-135562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu-migration-chief","tag-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}