Glorious day for Albanian Citizens.
From 18-th of December the Albanian citizens will join the visa liberalization scheme on European Union. They can move freely on Schengen territories without a visa permission. This is a long waited day from Albanians and they are looking to join EU so far. New biometric passport release by the Albanian government give them the right to move around Schengen territories.
Since the fall of communism in 1991 the Albanians have tried in many ways to migrate from their territory. They have used every mean to do this. Ships, boats, fake passports and even by foot to the territory near Greece. In the last 3 years the government made a lot of reforms by strengthening the Country boarders and putting a lot of control on it. These actions and a lot of technical requests given by the European Union made possible the free movement.
The doubt now stays on the Albanian citizens. Will they violate the law for touristic movement? Some voices from EU say that they trust on Albanians to be respectful with the law and not to break it once they will pass the board. If the break of the law will happen than the visa regime can be settled back again.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had put some television spots in order to make clear to their citizens that the visa liberalization regime is not meant for work purpose or for a longer stay than 90 days during 6 months. Even tho the Government is trying hard you can see freely that the people have a thirst of being free, so these movements have to be under strict and careful monitoring.
Most of the interviewed persons during television debates are at the age of 60 or above, that means that these people are not going to stay in Europe. They are not able for work so they probably are going for a visit to see their familiars. The younger people already have a work for living. The persons that are suspicious are the ones that until yesterday were traveling from the mountains through Greece to make any work for living . This category constitutes the age from 15 to 50 years old. That is the most problematic and the one that the Government should give better information, or even better should provide a work in their home country.
What we will see is unpredictable, but let's hope for positive. Let's hope that the action of a minority wont destroy dreams and rights of the majority.
