European Response in Russia Visa

Securing visa-free travel for bureaucrats would mark a significant victory for Putin. He would be able to sell it as proof that there are no consequences for his increasingly vicious crackdown on dissent.
Europe should instead unilaterally liberalize its own visa procedures for Russians who aren’t government officials, for example by making five-year visas available to frequent travelers. Failing that, the EU should take a principled stand and freeze visa negotiations, even though that wouldn’t be popular within Russia, where it would be seen as halting progress toward open borders.
Halting the negotiations would signal to Putin that he can’t get what he wants from Europe at the same time as he tramples on dissent. It would also show the Russian establishment, as a whole, that repression has costs for them. If the EU makes the error of agreeing to visa-free travel for Russia’s bureaucrats, there is some hope that the European Parliament -- which has to sign off on the deal and has signaled that it backs a Magnitsky list for Europe -- will refuse its approval.
Yet the EU leaders in Yekaterinburg shouldn’t let this reach parliament. Agreeing to visa-free travel for Russia’s bureaucrats would demonstrate that European politicians, for all their frequent blustering about the need to protect universal human rights, are as cynical as the ones in the Kremlin. This is, of course, what Putin has long claimed to be the case.
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