The Estonian Foreign Ministry has brought forward a proposal for the European Commission to adopt the eighth package of sanctions against Russia which will ban Russian travellers from entering Europe if passed, the agency issued a statement on its website.
“I call on other European governments to introduce additional domestic sanctions to stop the travel of the nationals of the aggressor state Russia and work together towards closing the Schengen area to Russian citizens,” Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu noted.
According to him, it is crucial to streamline the adoption of the new package of sanctions to raise the cost of the aggression for Russia. Estonia also seeks to expand economic, energy and trade sanctions imposed on Moscow as well as add more people and legal entities to sanction lists.
Reinsalu underlined that Estonia wants the new sanctions to significantly affect the Russian travel to Europe.
He added that Estonia is “working towards a consensus in the entire Schengen visa area to impose additional sanctions on Russian citizens as Estonia has already done.”