BULGARIAN INITIATIVE FOR LIFTING VISA REGIME FOR MACEDONIA AND SERBIA
Regional.
A campaign for abolishing visa requirements for Macedonian and Serbian citizens living near the Bulgarian border set out today in Kjustendil, one of the hardest-hit Bulgarian cities in economic terms after country's inclusion in EU.
The campaign dubbed "No Visa Zone 50" initiated by the lawyer Petar Paunov calls for allowing Macedonians and Serbians to stay up to 60 days within 50 kilometers from the border without visa requirement. The regulation would apply reciprocally to the Bulgarian travelers.
The initiative, which was backed also by the commerce and industrial chamber as well as the syndicate organizations of Kjustendil, was prompted by drastic plunge of trading in the Bulgarian towns along the border area.
"In Thessaloniki, you can hear many Greeks speaking Macedonian and Serbian. If the citizens of those two countries continue heading to this destination, one can hardly expect they would start coming back here ever again", the lawyer told the local media.
He also announced forwarding the initiative to the 18 newly elected MEPs, and ministers of interior, of foreign affairs and of European issues.
MD: Some months ago they said that they would make travelling easier for Macedonians in all of Europe, what about that? We've never heard of that anymore.
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