Although the coup in Ukraine in February 2014
was allegedly done in order to get Ukraine into the European Union
(because the overthrown President Viktor Yanukovych had just before declined the EU’s offer for Ukraine to join the EU), European countries are now denying Ukrainians visas even more than they had been doing before the coup and its follow-on Association Agreement with the EU.
Ukraine’s independent European Integration website headlined on July 21st, “The Percentage of Refusals Increased,”
and reported that, “Of the 22 countries in the Schengen area [the
countries where visas are not required], 16 increased the percentage of
refusals of entrance to Ukrainians as compared to the year 2013,” which
was the final year prior to the coup.
Furthermore: “Switzerland and Finland denied visas to Ukrainians at a
rate three times higher than in 2013, and Spain, Portugal, Greece and
Sweden denied visas almost twice as much as in 2013.”
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin “admitted: Some consulates
deliberately do not give visas to