{"id":63759,"date":"2015-10-28T03:27:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63759"},"modified":"2015-10-28T03:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T08:27:20","slug":"colombians-to-begin-visa-free-eu-travels-on-dec-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/28\/colombians-to-begin-visa-free-eu-travels-on-dec-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombians to begin visa-free EU travels on Dec. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63760\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/14432062455_1da2f47fe8_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63760\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/14432062455_1da2f47fe8_z.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo from Flickr\/Prensa Santos Presidente)\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/14432062455_1da2f47fe8_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/14432062455_1da2f47fe8_z-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo from Flickr\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/120552607@N03\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prensa Santos Presidente<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MEXICO CITY\u2014Colombian citizens will be able to travel to the European Union without a Schengen visa starting Dec. 3, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the European Council of Ministers approved the signing of an intergovernmental agreement with Colombia, alongside Pacific island-nations, on waiving short-stay visas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate Italy\u2019s support to eliminate the Schengen visa: since December, Colombians can go to Europe without a visa,\u201d Santos tweeted Tuesday after meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.<\/p>\n<p>Santos announced a state visit to Brussels in early December to sign the visa-free regime agreement with the European Union, according to the Colombian presidency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The visa-free regime affects 22 EU member states, as well as non-Schengen members Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Romania.<\/p>\n<p>Colombian citizens will also be able to travel visa-free to non-EU members Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY\u2014Colombian citizens will be able to travel to the European Union without a Schengen visa starting Dec. 3, Colombian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":63760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-63759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-original","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}