{"id":65480,"date":"2024-01-01T17:15:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/?p=65480"},"modified":"2024-01-01T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T17:15:37","slug":"citizens-welcome-visa-free-movement-we-deserved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/citizens-welcome-visa-free-movement-we-deserved-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens welcome visa-free movement &#8211; &#8216;We deserved it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Starting today (Monday), holders of Kosovo passports will be able to\ntravel to the Schengen area without visas for short-term stays.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Citizens welcomed the visa liberalization, who said that free movement\nin EU countries is a great achievement after a long mistreatment. They feel\nhappy that there will be no more restrictions and long waits in front of\nembassies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning, the Government of Kosovo has organized the first\nvisa-free trip for the 50 winners who won the trip to Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citizen Avdyl Spahiu said that this free movement is deserved earlier,\nsince according to him there have been various challenges, always conditional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another citizen, Adhurim Bajrami, said that it is now much easier\nwithout a visa, because according to him, there will be no expenses and there\nwill be no loss of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Jeton Kosumi told KosovaPress that citizens have been\nmistreated in front of embassies for 24 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xheladin Halimi said that visa liberalization has been a protracted\nprocess. He said that applying for visas has been difficult and expensive for\ncitizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, Loreta Vitija expressed her happiness as a citizen of Kosovo\nwho now can travel visa free. She said that now the youth has the opportunity\nto have this freedom of movement in the countries of the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting today (Monday), holders of Kosovo passports will be able to travel to the Schengen area without visas for short-term stays. Citizens welcomed the visa liberalization, who said that free movement in EU countries is a great achievement after a long mistreatment. They feel happy that there will be no more restrictions and long waits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":65481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302,306,296],"tags":[754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65482,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65480\/revisions\/65482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}