Serbia Calls on Europe to Abolish Visas

The German embassy in Belgrade is only one of the diplomatic missions in the Serbian capital with visa applicants queuing up outside. But this line-up is almost permanent. Serbs need visas to travel to the Schengen countries.
 
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Schengen groups almost all the EU states, plus non-EU Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. Tamara goes through this every time she goes to visit to her boyfriend.

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Tamara STOJONOVIC, in English:
You have to apply with a huge amount of papers and also because the EU doesn't recognize Serbian health insurance, then you have to have an additional health insurance that it costs if you go for one month around 50 euro additional and again you have to pay for the visa which is 35 euro.
 
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Language challenges make the process that much harder.
 
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Miroljub DJUKIC, in Serbian:
My daughter has sent me a written invitation for my granddaughter's birthday party."
 
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The European Commission has proposed that the Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians be allowed to travel without a visa for the EU from this coming January.
 
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Maja and Tamara, sisters, age 25 and 28, of a new Serbian generation, grasp any chance to travel and to study abroad. One has a political science degree and the other's an economist. They have an aunt who is Italian, the sort of thing that can help with a visa; you need an invitation letter from someone in an EU member state when you apply.
 
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Maja TRGOVČEVIĆ, Student, in English:
I am lucky because I have always somebody there who can send me a letter of invitation. There are people who do not have that.
 
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Tamara came back to Belgrade after eight years' studying and working in Italy and Belgium.
 
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Tamara TRGOVČEVIĆ, Economist, in English:
After a year in Brussels, my visa expired and I came back to Belgrade.
 
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Tamara now has a job here. Maja is taking a masters' environmental degree. 
 
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Few of Belgrade University's students are free to travel in the EU unconditionally. Most are enrolled in International ... Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[mrground]

I wish good luck to my surbian fridnds! :-)

[MARKOSOUTHSERB]

Good way for my country.

[itachiitachi1946]

@bbphnix OF OTOOMAN EMPIRE WHEN TURKS ATTACKED GREECE.OPEN A FUCKING BOOK

[itachiitachi1946]

@bbphnix U SIR R THE PERSONIFICATION OF STUPIDITY AND PROPAGANDA.SKOJIE USE THE GREEK NAME MACEDONIA CAUSE THEY WANT GREEK SOIL AND HISTORY(THEY VE SAID THAT SO DONT TELL ME THAT THEY DONT WANT GREEK OIL AND GREEK HISTORY)ALSO THE PLACE THEY LIVE IS A SMALL PART OF MAKEDONIA(MAKEDONIA IS A DISTRICT OF GREECE)GREECE HAD MANY WARS THE 19 AND 20TH CENTURY AND WE GOT OUR SOIL BACK BUT THE ALABANIAN AND SKOPIJE PARTS WE DIDNT TOOK THEM BACK.THATS WHY THEY DSTILL HAVE GREEK NAMES. ITS JUST REMNANTS OF

[bbphnix]

@itachiitachi1946 you, sir, are a symbol of everything that's wrong with this world, especially in Europe; IT'S A FUCKING NAME, nothing more.... how can you people be so angry about the name of a country? they are NOT trying to steal your history, that's either paranoia or stupidity; it's just a funny coincidence that there's a Slavic nation named the same as a historic part of Greece; a coincidence, and even a funny one, nothing to get enraged over; this isn't even worth discussing, it's crazy

[bbphnix]

no worries, I'm sure bosnia montenegro serbia and albania will soon enter EU; for sure; and of course there will be the intermediate step of renouncing visas;

(I think Kosovo should be part of Serbia, so Kosovo was included in the enumeration above)

[itachiitachi1946]

euxtv im mad at u now.WHY THE FUCK U CALLED THOSE SLAVS MACEDONIA?MACEDONIA IS A REGION OF GREECE(JUST LIKE ATHINA SPARTI SALONICA ETC ETC)DAMMIT.IM TIRED OF THAT PROPAGANDA.THE NAME OF THEIR COUNTRY IS VARDASKA.THEY USE THE NAME OF MACEDONIA TO STEAL THE GREEK HISTORY-HERITAGE AND GREEK SOIL.BTW EU MEMBERS HAVE CAUSED MANY TROUBLES ON VARDASKA.EUX TV PLZ STOP UR MALE ASS PROPAGANDA.WHO IS RESPONCIBLE FOR THIS CHANNEL?

[SwedishDictatorship]

FUCK EU AND THE NARCO TRADING WHORES IN BRUSSELS!

Afghan Heroin - Bofors SAAB Dynamics - CIA - NATO - Kosovo - Turkey - Pakistan - India - Opium - Reinfeldt - Wallenberg - Heroin War Weapons Swedish Politics.

[efesair]

learn how to spell...

[yugo91aesop]

wow...i dont even know where to start

[black86eristoff]

Serbia in EU...Tureky and other muslim contries OUT !!!

[ELMARIACHIZELAYA]

2:20 Nikki Sixx \m/

lols

BAN VISAS!