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The Issue: Ban Russian Tourists?

— “We should no longer welcome Russian tourists in our country and in the European Union,” says Sjoers Sjoerdsma. The Member of Parliament on behalf of D66 says that “a visa stop is important for our own safety.”

Ordinary Russians can now quite easily get a tourist visa to come to Europe for a holiday. But especially in Eastern Europe, more and more critics want Russian citizens to be no longer welcome here as long as the war in Ukraine continues.

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