Kosovar Center for Security Studies (KCSS) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) organized the roundtable entitled "The EU Visa Liberalisation Process in the Western Balkans: A Comparative Assessment".
In this event, KCSS launched the report entitled: "The EU Visa Liberalization Process in the Western Balkans Countries: A Comparative Assessment". This report has been financed by GIZ and assesses the progress that Western Balkans countries made in fulfilling the benchmarks set in the visa liberalisation roadmaps. The research surfaced the progress made by Kosovo and areas of concern compared to other WB countries. The comparative analysis takes Kosovo’s roadmap as a baseline and assesses every country’s standing towards that reference. The analysis narrows down to 16 months – the date when the first roadmaps were delivered to WB countries (with the exception of Kosovo), in March 2008 and October 2010 when the last recommendations were made to the EU Council for the liberalisation of visa regime for all Western Balkan countries.
This roundtable was attended by a wide range of experts, policy makers, civil servants, representatives of the media and civil society who discussed the Visa Liberalization process in the EU WB countries, in particular the Kosovo case.
