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1. SCHENGEN BORDERS IN PRACTICE case study of visa issuance arrangements between Finland and Northwest Federal district of Russia

3. ‘because’-part: why & how it works with Finns

5. The concept ‘common border – common visa policy’: Maastricht Treaty on the European Union, 1992 Article K.1 For the purposes of achieving the objectives of the Union, in particular the free movement of persons […] Member States shall regard the following areas as matters of common interest: […] 2. rules governing the crossing by persons of the external borders of the Member States and the exercise of controls thereon[…]

6. The concept ‘common border – common visa policy’: Amsterdam Treatyamending TEC, 1997 Article 62 The Council […] shall […] adopt: […] (2) measures on the crossing of the external borders of the Member States which shall establish: […] (b) rules on visas for intended stays of no more than three months, including: […] (ii) the procedures and conditions for issuing visas by Member States […]

8. 2005 (2002) – COMMON CONSULAR INSTRUCTIONS ON VISAS FOR THE DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS ANDCONSULAR POSTS(2005/C 326/01)

9. 2009 – REGULATION (EC) No 810/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas(Visa Code)

11. Uniform visas (visas ‘C’) issued by selected Member States, 2008 Source: authors’ own calculations based on Council document 12493/09 ‘Exchange of statistical information on uniform visas issued by Member States' diplomatic missions and consular posts’, 2009

12. Number of visas ‘C’ issued by Finnish dip.missions in Russia, 2008 Source: authors’ own calculations based on Council document 12493/09 ‘Exchange of statistical information on uniform visas issued by Member States' diplomatic missions and consular posts’, 2009

13. Area - 1 687 000 sq.km Population - 13 462 000

14. A unique regime? Poland and the its border region of the Ukraine?

16. Number of visas issued by Finnish dip.missions in Russia and number of trips to Finland by Russians, 2008 Source: authors’ own calculations based on Council document 12493/09 ‘Exchange of statistical information on uniform visas issued by Member States' diplomatic missions and consular posts’, 2009 and Rosturism and Rosstat, 2009

17. ForeigntouristsvisitingFinland, 2008 Source: RAJAHAASTATTELUTUTKIMUS, BORDER INTERVIEW SURVEY, Finnish Tourist Board / Statistics Finland, 2009

18. Average expenditure of foreign tourists (incl. same-day visitors) per day, 2008 Source: RAJAHAASTATTELUTUTKIMUS, BORDER INTERVIEW SURVEY, Finnish Tourist Board / Statistics Finland, 2009

19. Total amounts of money brought to Finland by foreign passengers, 2008 Source: RAJAHAASTATTELUTUTKIMUS, BORDER INTERVIEW SURVEY, Finnish Tourist Board / Statistics Finland, 2009

20. Historical memory & confidence habit President of Finland, Uhro K. Kekkonen, (R) with Nikita S. Khrushchev (C) at party atFinlandEmbassy

21. 2006 Russia migration-to-the-EU pattern The US migration-to-the-EU pattern

23. Common border, territory of MSs, common visa policy

24. Practice is different - even if it is a unique case

25. Visa-free regime with Russia – another example? ‘as the minister said, we have discussed visas as well; what I would saying in term of future as we need to focus very much on the substance of what we need to achieve between us to enable us to reach the point and we will continue with that work’ (Catherine ASHTON, Press conference, 24 February 2010)

26. ‘I consider that the lower barriers between us get, the sooner and better we can achieve a visa-free regime’ (Alexander Stubb, a meeting with Sankt Petersburg Governor ValentinaMatvienko, 2008) ‘Exemption from the visa requirement between the EU and Russia is an important goal, which will markedly increase and facilitate interaction between citizens in due course. Finland favours rapid progress towards the introduction of a visa-free travel regime based on jointly agreedreciprocallybindingterms’ (Russia Action Plan, 2009) Alexander Stubb

28. ‘eu puzzle_1’, Scottish International Investment, http://www.scot-invest.com/images/pictures/eu_puzzle1.jpg

29. ‘Signing of the Schengen Agreement (14 June 1985)’, © Service Information et Presse du Gouvernement luxembourgeois, http://www.ena.lu/

30. ‘The Maastricht Treaty’ by KonradDwojak, http://www.flickr.com/photos/konradd/384948344/

31. ‘amsterdamtreaty’, CIVITAS, EU FACTS, http://www.civitas.org.uk/eufacts/graphics/amsterdamtreaty.jpg

32. ‘Queue for essential goods’, Tenetour, http://images.google.ru/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tenetour.com/History/large/queue_for_essential_goods.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.tenetour.com/history8.php&usg=__x-0dH_ursjlzMFAWMkyeFvK_ZJk=&h=365&w=669&sz=55&hl=ru&start=45&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=8fa-OoImcD-81M:&tbnh=75&tbnw=138&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsoviet%2Bqueue%26start%3D42%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dru%26lr%3D%26newwindow%3D1%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_RURU284%26ndsp%3D21%26tbs%3Disch:1

33. ‘Northwest Federal District’, THE OFFICIAL KARELIA. The Republic of Karelia State Government Bodies’ Official Web Portal, http://www.gov.karelia.ru/gov/Maps/nw1_e.gif

34. ‘at the polish/ukrainian border’ by bike2chemnitz, http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike2where/2967732986/

35. ‘joliette’ by -Antoine-, http://www.flickr.com/photos/rouleau/158302540/

36. ‘President of Finland, Uhro K. Kekkonen, (R) w. Nikita S. Khrushchev (C) at party at Finland Embassy’ by Carl Mydans, http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/50554543.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=E41C9FE5C4AA0A14D34ADF54AB9DE9DB6DDCA825C8C3CA71E818EF4E0625F85DB01E70F2B3269972

37. ‘AlexsanderStubb’,AlexsanderStubb’s web site, http://www.alexstubb.com/