Brussels, 17/11/2008 (Agence Europe) -On Monday 17 November, the European Commission proposed opening negotiations with Cape Verde with a view to the conclusion of an agreement aiming to facilitate the issuing of short-stay visas, in parallel to a readmission agreement for illegal immigrants. The Commission put a list of these facilitations to the member states: reduction of visa costs, reducing the time for applications to be processed, issuing multiple-entry visas with a longer period of...