Member of the European Parliament Yana Toom said that the decision of the Estonian authorities to ban the entry of Russian citizens with a Schengen visa issued by this republic “demonstrates dementia and has no future at all.”
In a TV interview, the parliamentarian added: “This is an absurd situation. [وزير الخارجية الإستوني] Urmas Rensloo proposes to ban Russians with Schengen visas issued by the Estonian embassy from entering Estonia and supports him in this [رئيسة الوزراء] Kaya Klass and [وزير الداخلية] Lori Lanimets. Fortunately, Estonia cannot decide for the entire Schengen area, but only for itself. All we can do is ban the visas that we ourselves issued to these people yesterday. In my opinion, we are in a situation where we look a little stupid.”
The parliamentarian expressed confidence that it would not be possible to pass this idea through the Council of the European Union.
“There is a legislative definition of the sanctions regime, and among them it has several goals: maintaining or restoring peace, maintaining democracy, etc. I can’t understand with my small head how a ban on the entry of Russians can restore peace in Ukraine,” she said . said to understand it.
Source: TASS