Western Balkans – the opening

Visa-free travel and asylum

Kosovo – the Balkan Ghetto

Turkey – the European promise

The EU's Eastern Partners – the vision

Europe's borders – global lessons?

To find out more

• How the EU takes decisions
• Background reading on the border revolution
• How Schengen works

• Albania
• Bosnia-Hercegovina
• Kosovo
• Macedonia
• Montenegro
• Serbia
• Moldova
• Turkey
• Ukraine

• ESI and the Schengen White List Project
• The Advisory Board
• ESI newsletters on visa
• ESI advocacy
• ESI events
• ESI and visa in the press
• The donors
• The EU-US-Mexico Project

The road to visa-free travel for the Western Balkans

• The visa facilitation and readmission agreements
• The visa roadmaps
• The readiness reports of the Western Balkan governments
• The progress assessments by the European Commission
• The Commission proposal for visa-free travel (15 July 2009)
• The opinion of the European Parliament (12 November 2009)
• The Council decision giving Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia visa-free travel (30 November 2009)
• The Commission proposal for Albania and Bosnia (27 May 2010)
• The European Parliament on Albania and Bosnia
• The Council decision giving Albania and Bosnia visa-free travel (8 November 2010)
• Commission Statement on a Monitoring Mechanism (8 November 2010)
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• Chronology
• Excerpts from EU policy documents
• Voices in support of freedom of movement
• Stories from the visa ghetto