{"id":56876,"date":"2025-11-07T19:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=56876"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:43:03","slug":"eu-toughens-visa-rules-for-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/eu-toughens-visa-rules-for-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Toughens Visa Rules for Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has adopted stricter visa rules for Russian nationals in light of what it calls the &#8220;weaponization of migration, acts of sabotage and potential misuse of visas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Russian nationals will no longer be eligible for multiple-entry visas and must apply for a new visa each time they travel to the EU, a statement from the European Commission read. It said the aim was to protect public policy and security, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>There will be limited exceptions for dissidents, independent journalists and human rights defenders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting a war and expecting to move freely in Europe is hard to justify,&#8221; EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The EU is tightening visa rules for Russian nationals amid continued drone disruptions and sabotage on European soil. Travelling to the EU is a privilege, not a given.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has adopted stricter visa rules for Russian nationals in light of what it calls the &#8220;weaponization of migration, acts of sabotage and potential misuse of visas&#8221;. Russian nationals will no longer be eligible for multiple-entry visas and must apply for a new visa each time they travel to the EU, a statement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56878,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876\/revisions\/56878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}