23 August 2022
On the current question of whether Russian citizens should be banned from entering the European Union, ECR Coordinator for Foreign Affairs Anna Fotyga said:
“We need to understand that this war is not Putin’s war alone. It is unacceptable that citizens of an aggressive country enjoy themselves in the EU while their troops kill peaceful Ukrainians and shell their cities and towns. That is why the EU must ban granting tourist visas to Russians altogether.
“The citizens of Russia should experience first-hand that we will never accept the approach of their dictatorial, aggressive and unscrupulous regime, which has widespread support across the entire society. Poland, since the very beginning of the invasion, has limited issuing visas to Russians to the very minimum, stopping tourist ones while accepting humanitarian cases. I hope other EU countries will follow Poland’s example.”
Source – ECR