Ukraine expects to get visa-free regime with EU earlier than Russia

[joebloggs]

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry believes that the European Union should switch to a visa free regime with Ukraine earlier than with Russia.



http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...ia-316784.html

[Dedworth]

Why ?

[Iani]

Thought the whole idea of which countries needed a visa, and which didn't, came down to two things...

1. Keeping a check on "undesirable" elements

2. and the overwhelmingly number one reason - an "insurance" against illegal immigration by only granting visa free travel to citizens of countries with similar economic systems.

So the question which would need to be asked is - are Ukranians sufficiently developed enough not to be a risk to have free access to the EU?

Ukraine also has a bizarre social issue, in that the former USSR in a policy of divide and rule, moved the borders to take in areas of Russian ethnicity. Eastern Ukraine is not so keen on the EU or even being part of Ukraine

[Dedworth]

The impression I get is that Ukraine is full of crims and pond life probably twinned with Romania & Bulgaria therefore will be welcomed into the EU with open arms