No Visa - Europe is our home!

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January 21th, LYMEC

Countries where the street action will take place + letters to the governments will be sent.

STREET ACTIONS TOOK PLACE IN

Belgium, Brussels - LYMEC, JEF
Oslo, Norway - LYMEC and NUV
Vilnius, Lithuania - JEF, LYMEC

STREET ACTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE ON 13th February IN;

Barcelona, Catalonia - JNC (Press Release)
Bern, Switzerland - JFS (Press Release)
Brussels, Belgium - FEL, JMR
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - JOVD (Press Release)
Copenhagen, Denmark - RU
Rome, Italy - GIV and JEF
Ljubljana, Slovenia - MLD
Pula, Croatia - IDY
Zagreb, Croatia - Mladi HNS
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - MLBiH
Belgrade, Serbia - Civic Pact, CYA, CA, Mladi HNS....
Pristina, Kosovo - LRK and AEGEE Pristina
Skopje, Macedonia - Liberal Youth Union of Macedonia, LiDem
Bucharest, Romania - TNL and LSC (Press Release)
Warsaw, Poland - YC
Chisinau, Moldova - AMN

Minsk, Belarus - Liberal Generation
Tallinn, Estonia - Reform Party
Helsinki, Finland - SU
Stockholm, Sweden - LUF

Big street actions will take place in Brussels and Belgrade. In Belgrade CYA, LYMEC and Mladi HNS will organise panel debates.

There is still time for other organisations to join us!

January 21th, LYMEC

No visa petition reached 1000 signatures in just a week!

LYMEC's petition against visa regime has in just one week reached over 1000 signatures! We would like to thank ISEEL for spreading the word, especially Vice President of ISEEL, ms. Vedrana Gujic!

January 11th, LYMEC

No visa conference in the European Parliament

LYMEC will hold it's annual conference in the European Parliament. The conference will deal with visa regimes in Europe. To find out more about it, and apply* for the event please go here!

* Only for member organisations and individual members

January 9th, LYMEC

Common "no visa street action" will take place in Europe's capitals on February 13th

Each member organisation will be / has been contacted by LYMEC bureau member in charge of their region. Other organisations and individuals who are not member of LYMEC but would like to take part in this street action please contact office@lymec.org

January 9th, AMN Youth Moldova

AMN youth accuses authorities of blocking the opening of Romanian consulates in Balti and Cahul

According to the cited document, OT AMN expresses its dissatisfaction with this attitude of the Moldova�s leadership, which scoff at their citizens, hampering the facilitation of the visa obtaining process for Romania after it has joined the European Union. Moldovan citizens need visas in order to pass the western border, regardless of the fact if the destination is the neighbouring country or another one.

Read the whole text here

January 1st, The European Union

Romania and Bulgaria join the EU

By joining the EU, Romania's and Bulgaria's problems with the visa regime towards the EU are part of the history. However Romanians still need the visa towards Serbia

December 18th, Citizens Pact For SEE

LYMEC's No Visa campaign mentioned on the other web sites as well

On the September 26 European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) has launched a Europe-wide campaign called �No Visa. Europe is our home�, focused on abolishing tourist and student visas within the European continent. LYMEC announced that �Visa regime negatively affects the youth mobility on the European continent and are an obstacle to the birth of a European civil society.�

Read the whole text here

December 14th, Danish Minister of Immigration

Letter from Danish Minister of immigration

November 15th, European Commission

EC: Response to the letter sent by LYMEC announcing "No Visa" Campaign.

LYMEC got the response from the European Commission on the letter about the campaign against visas. You can read the letter here!

November 9th, JEF and LYMEC

Vilnius: No Visa demonstrations.

Today in Vilnius, European Liberal Youth (LYMEC), together with its members in Lithuania - Lithuanian Liberal Youth (LLJ) and Young Liberal Centrists (LCUJ) - and the Young European Federalists (JEF), built up a huge symbolic visa wall resembling the Berlin Wall and demanded an immediate removal of the current visa regime dividing Europe.

The action is part of a pan- European campaign of LYMEC for abolishing tourist and student visas within Europe and a street campaign organised by JEF on the day of the fall of the Berlin wall, where the same demands are made in front of the same visa/Berlin wall in over 15 cities across Europe.

Press cuts:

November 1st, ALDE Group

European Liberal Democrats demand simpler and fairer visa rules for the Western Balkans

An ALDE seminar held today in the European Parliament examined the visa facilitation prospects for the Western Balkans. Bilateral visa facilitation agreements which the European Commission starts to negotiate today with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia will mark the first step towards free travel.

Read the whole text here

December 20th, EUObserver

EU and Ukraine to clinch visa deal amid doubt on future relation

The EU is set to relax visa rules for Ukraine at a summit in Helsinki today (27 October) but bilateral relations are becoming increasingly ambiguous as Brussels refuses to clarify its position on Kiev's EU accession hopes and Ukraine prime minister Viktor Yanukovych begins to rebuild relations with Russia.

Read the whole text here

Join us!

Dear members,

Our aim might seem relatively easy to accomplish, but that's far from true. We need the help of our members in all European countries to put pressure on the national governments to end the visa regimes in all countries on the European continent.

We believe in a free and developed Europe. To accomplish this we need to resolve a number of issues and barriers, and the visa regime is one of the barriers that needs to be taken down! This is where you come in. We ask from our members organisations, individual members and IMS Clubs to join us in this campaign. Find out more in the "Contribute" section how you can join us!