Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, Responsible for Home Affairs

"Our commitment to visa liberalisation for the citizens of Kosovo is real, and I am very pleased that we can now start making concrete progress towards this goal. I know how important visa free travel is to the citizens of Kosovo and I'm happy that we've now set the ball rolling. Whether and how soon citizens obtain the privilege of visa-free travel will nevertheless depend entirely on the Government of Kosovo's continuing efforts to implement reforms in the rule of law area and on concrete progress made on the ground," said Cecilia Malmström.

In the past, the EU launched visa liberalisation dialogues with five Western Balkans countries in order to allow their citizens to travel to the EU without a visa. Following an assessment on the progress made by these countries in implementing major reforms, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia joined the EU's visa-free regime in December 2009 and Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina in November 2010.

During her visit in Kosovo, Commissioner Malmström held bilateral meetings with Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Hajredin Kuçi and others. She also visited the Centre for Protection of Victims and Prevention of Trafficking in Human Beings, a non-profit organisation providing legal assistance, accommodation and education to victims of trafficking.

Find out more and see pictures from the Kosovo visit here.

Malmström's tweets are in English. The account is managed both by the Commissioner and her cabinet staff, but tweets by the Commissioner are signed with her initials in order to make the distinction clear to readers.

During the past week, tweets have revolved around subjects such as the upcoming French election ("1/3 of French adhere to ideas of Front National. Election risks being ugly. Leadership needed to stand up for European values"), the recently dismantled drug trafficking network in Sweden and Bulgaria ("Crime knows no borders, neither should we") and last year's questions from the European Parliament ("Just learned that EP sent 12 000 questions to the Commission last year. Seems to be a slight inflation of this democratic instrument").

Cecilia Malmström blogs in English and Swedish since several years, but is relatively new to the Twitter universe. About her first impressions, she says:

"To me, Twitter is very useful as a news monitoring tool. And I'm a bit of a news addict, so I am becoming quite hooked already. It is also a perfect way of getting a feel for the debate on different issues, getting to know people's concerns better, and to correct misunderstandings about my own policy field as Commissioner."

Find all of the Commissioners tweets at twitter.com/MalmstromEU

Tre personer greps i Sverige. Dessutom har tre anläggningar för amfetaminframställning stängts ner i Bulgarien, och vapen, ammunition och sprängmedel tagits i beslag.

"Det här är en bra dag för vårt europeiska polissamarbete. Att den här ligan har kunnat sprängas visar hur oerhört viktigt det är att polismyndigheter kan utbyta information med varandra i EU. Den organiserade brottsligheten känner inga gränser", säger EU-kommissionär Cecilia Malmström i en kommentar.

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