The European Union is preparing to offer Ukraine an Action Plan on visa-free travel in November
The European Commission has drafted the Ukraine plan, which is to be adopted by EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday (25 October) and formally presented at an EU-Ukraine summit in the EU capital on 22 November.
The Action Plan itself is a list of EU demands for Ukraine reforms on issues such as document security or repatriation of irregular immigrants. The open-ended plan does not give a deadline but some in Kiev dare to hope it could be put in place in time for the Euro 2012 football championships in Ukraine and Poland.
The technical EU document is seen as a political breakthrough in Ukraine which has been pleading, without success, for an EU enlargement perspective for the past five years.
"It means that the Schengen or Berlin visa wall will sooner or later be demolished," Ukraine’s ambassador to the EU, Kostiantyn Yelisieiev told referring to the EU’s passport-free Schengen zone.
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