{"id":67492,"date":"2022-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/?guid=0b0c50a49fda2e29e7361e75089a40e1"},"modified":"2022-05-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:00:00","slug":"kuwait-chief-lawmaker-sees-imminent-schengen-visa-exemption-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/kuwait-chief-lawmaker-sees-imminent-schengen-visa-exemption-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait chief lawmaker sees imminent Schengen visa exemption deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
— Kuwait’s Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim said on Monday that a number of his fellow lawmakers are heading to Belgium in a bid to finalize a deal on allowing Kuwaitis visa-free travel to Schengen countries. The lawmakers will join a vote in the Belgian capital Brussels, alongside their counterparts from the European Union’s (EU) legislative arm, on whether to greenlight the move, he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
On the outcome of the vote, he expressed “confidence” that it would pan out in Kuwait’s favor, thanks largely to its solid relations with EU member states.<\/p>\n
The European Commission said last month that it would include Kuwait in its list of nations whose citizens are granted visa-free travel to the EU’s Schengen zone<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
— Kuwait’s Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim said on Monday that a number of his fellow lawmakers are heading to Belgium in a bid to finalize a deal on allowing Kuwaitis visa-free travel to Schengen countries. The lawmakers will join a vote in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n