On March, 27, 2012 from 10.30 a.m. till 15.30 in Brussels, Policy Association for an Open Society will be helding a seminar: “Reaching the Tipping-point of Visa-Free Travel for Eastern Partner Countries”.
The event is part of “Paving the road towards visa-free travel between the Eastern Partnership countries and the EU“, a PASOS-led project. The project’s recent policy brief on the challenges at the EU level – by Piotr Kaźmierkiewicz, Migration and visa policy expert, Institute of Public Affairs, Poland, and Nadya Dimitrova, Migration and visa policy expert, European Institute are avaliable here
At the seminar, new policy briefs on the progress made, and challenges ahead, will be presented by leading think-tank analysts from the Eastern Partnership countries. The seminar will comprise the following three sessions:
1)Freedom to Travel or a Security Problem? Human rights in EU visa and readmission policies towards Partner countries, and anti-migration impulses in EU members’ election campaigns.
2)Reaching the Tipping-Point of Visa-Free Travel: Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova – where are the real weak links and political stumbling-blocks that could delay finalisation of visa liberalisation?
3)Reaching the Tipping-Point of Visa-Free Travel: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus – political will in the Partner countries vs political conditionality from the EU side
Date: Tuesday 27 March 2012
Venue: Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU15
Rue Caroly, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Please register attendance to Jeff Lovitt at jefflovitt@pasos.org by noon on 26 March.
