Member States were called upon, on Thursday 16 February, in the framework of a meeting of the Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA) of the EU Council, to discuss the future of visa policy and the possible reform of the mechanism for suspending the granting of visa-free regimes.
On the basis of a note from the Swedish Presidency and with several Member States advocating for a more restrictive use of the EU’s visa policy towards non-cooperative third countries on...