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50 Serbian citizens to travel to EU through “Europe for All” project

Belgrade, 9 November 2009

Deputy Prime Minister for EU integration Bozidar Djelic today stated that within the “Europe for All” project 50 Serbian citizens who have never travelled to EU countries before will go to Rome, Paris, Berlin and Brussels on the first day of visa liberalisation.

At a press conference about the opening of the “Europe for All” project, Djelic stressed that this will be the first group of people to travel to the EU in this manner, adding that the costs of the journey will not be covered by Serbian tax payers.

The Deputy Prime Minister expressed his expectation that on November 12 the European Parliament will accept the Slovene initiative for visas for Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia to be abolished as of December 19.

Djelic, who will attend the plenary session of the European Parliament, will travel to Brussels on November 10 in order to participate in preparatory meetings for the session.

Head of the European Commission delegation to Serbia Vincent Degert noted that the upcoming visa abolishment for Serbian citizens is the result of the government’s hard work in the past two years.

It is now the right time to show that Serbian citizens can travel to EU countries without waiting in queues in front of embassies and consulates, with no expenses for visas and without having to collect various documents.

In a public competition, which will be organised from November10 to 25, 50 citizens will be selected for the trip to the EU for a period of six days, starting from the first day of visa liberalisation.

The project is led by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration in cooperation with the NGO European Movement in Serbia, and supported by the European Commission Delegation to Serbia, the embassies of France, Italy and Germany, as well as the company Jat Airways, Nikola Tesla Airport, Erstebank and Banca Intesa.

Media partners of the project are the Radio-Television Serbia and the daily Press.

The conference participants were Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia Maja Bobic, Italian Ambassador Armando Varicchio and representatives of the embassies of France and Germany.