Klimkin became worried: there is no one to work in the country, Ukrainians are leaving en masse for the EU
Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin is concerned about the mass exodus of Ukrainians abroad, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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He stated this at today's press conference.
“Any good deal - either an Association Agreement or a visa-free regime - can be a plus for us, but it also carries risk. I worked on visa-free travel for many years, and now I see that just last year more than a million Ukrainians left Ukraine. One hundred thousand leave Ukraine every month, and the question is not only that there are high salaries there - it’s generally an understanding of the future and quality of life,” Klimkin said.
In this context, he told how a few months ago he visited a Polish school in Ivano-Frankivsk, where there are almost no Poles in 24 Polish classes, and only Ukrainians study. According to the minister, when he asked schoolchildren about their dreams, they answered that their parents intended them to study in Poland and then move on.
“If we don’t stop this, then the meaning of our reforms will defeat us,” said the head of the Foreign Ministry.
Let us remind you that from June 11, 2017, citizens of Ukraine can enter 26 EU member countries with a biometric passport, with the exception of Great Britain and Ireland (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania , Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden and Estonia). Also, citizens of Ukraine will be able to use a biometric passport to visit four more states that are part of the Schengen zone, but are not part of the European Union: Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
The visa-free regime allows Ukrainian citizens to stay on the territory of EU countries for no more than 90 days within a 180-day period.
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