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TARGET 2016

TARGET 2016. How Turkey gets to Visa liberalization. A new momentum?. December 2013 Visa liberalisation process March 2014 Court decision (Berlin) April 2014 Moldovans travel visa free May 2014 Progress in Georgia and Ukraine …. Association Agreement (1963)

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TARGET 2016

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  1. TARGET 2016 How Turkey gets to Visa liberalization

  2. A new momentum? December 2013 Visa liberalisation process March 2014 Court decision (Berlin) April 2014 Moldovans travel visa free May 2014 Progress in Georgia and Ukraine …

  3. Association Agreement (1963) “to promote the continuous and balanced strengthening of trade and economic relations between the Parties.”

  4. What is this relationship to the young?

  5. Turkey’s young generation – 31 million Who are they?

  6. People to people contact: huge untapped potential

  7. New momentum I: European Court of Justice Soysal decision (2009) - Demirkan decision (2013)

  8. Who can travel visa free today? A Protocol to the 1963 EU-Turkey Association Agreement prevents both parties "from introducing between themselves any new restriction on the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services." 2009 Soysal case: German visa requirement for Turkish citizens is a "new restriction" - it did not exist in 1973 when the protocol entered into force. Other EU member states are also affected. So far only the Netherlands and Denmark have lifted the visa requirement for Turkish service providers.

  9. New momentum II: regional court Berlin-Brandenburg (decision 26 March 2014)

  10. Another crack in the wall Turkish businesspeople have “the right to enter Germany without a visa to provide services to persons within the framework of their business activities.” Categories of Turkish service providers who can enter Germany visa-free so far: truck drivers, members of ship and airplane crews, mechanics repairing machinery in Germany, artists, scientists and professional sportspeople. Now needs to be expanded.

  11. New momentum III: Moldova visa free travel From end April 2014

  12. New momentum IV: Visa liberalization process December 2013

  13. The roadmap approach – concrete standards

  14. What worked in the Balkans and for Moldova:security partnership arguments leaders address EU fears directlyhuman rights and asylum argumentsCivil society pushing leaders to focus (Serbia 2009 vs. Bosnia 2009)

  15. Roadmaps and scorecards – strict and fair

  16. Who to persuade?

  17. Apprehensions of illegal immigrants at Greek-Turkishland borderper month, for 2012-2013

  18. The second concern: asylum (2012)

  19. Recognition rates in EU first instance (2012)(Refugee status and subsidiary protection)Syria –90 percentIran – 47 percentRussia (Chechens) – 19 percentAzerbaijan – 14 percentTurkey –12 percentPakistan – 9 percentUkraine – 5 percentMoldova – 2.8 percentMacedonia – 0.4 percentIMPORTANCE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND NON DISCRIMINATION

  20. Turkey: visa and human rights (Block 4) “Revise … the legal framework … so as to ensure the right to liberty and security, the right to a fair trial and freedom of expression, of assembly and association in practice.”

  21. Another lesson from Moldova – visa and non-discrimination

  22. How to get to 234? Turkey secures the support of Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden A large number of smaller member states: Bulgaria, Croatia (to join on 1 July 2013), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia and Slovenia; The support of Germany. Votes of Austria, Cyprus, Luxembourg, France and the Netherlands are not needed

  23. Target date 2016? A matter of trust

  24. Building trust: what member states can do

  25. Dialogue on Justice and Home Affairs commits Turkey and the EU to "fully exploit all possibilities provided by the EU Visa Code and other legal instruments to further facilitate the access of Turkish citizens to the EU."

  26. “Trust and Travel”: Concrete goals for 2014 • - reduce rejection rates to less than 2 percent; • - more than 90 percent long-term multiple entry visa; • - reduce costs in line; • solve the Erasmus student visa problem • All in compliance with existing EU visa rules

  27. Rejection rates of short-stay visa applications in Turkey 2012[3] Reduce rejection rates

  28. Rejection rates of short-stay visa in Turkey 2010 to 2012 (%)[4] A positive trend

  29. MEVs among short-stay visas issued in Turkey in 2012[8] Multiple-entry visa 2012

  30. MEVs among short-stay visas issued in Turkey in 2012[8] Share of MEVs among short-stay visas issued by Schengen countries[10] Multiple-entry visa – another positive trend

  31. MEVs among short-stay visas issued in Turkey in 2012[8] Share of MEVs among short-stay visas issued by Schengen countries[10] Waiving the Schengen visa fee Categories for which the visa fee may be waived: • "(a) children from the age of six years and below the age of 12 years; • (b) holders of diplomatic and service passports; • (c) participants aged 25 years or less in seminars, conferences, sports, cultural or educational events, organised by non-profit organisations."

  32. Finnish example Multiple entry – valid up to 5 years Within 5 business days

  33. Trust and Travel www.whitelistproject.eu

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