Path to Europe: the race with artificial obstacles



The firm conducting the bus transportation from Ukraine to Belgium and France, have repeatedly found himself in a situation when crossing the border in the German town of Forst buses were detained, both reasons are explained, and no apologies are not brought. The record was June 21 last year, when the bus stood on the border 15 hours. In general, as the director of the Lviv-Intourtrans Vasily Popovich, a delay of 4-5 hours are the norm. According to the German border in Forst \u0026quot;openly showed contempt for Ukrainian citizens, including employees of our company is constantly insulted several times without explanation, they searched bags for drivers and passengers were forced to move things in a different place - whereas citizens other countries freely crossed the border. \u0026quot; Popovich said: if the bus Lviv-Intourtrans \u0026quot;really going offenders, which Germany did not want to tolerate on its territory, in international practice adopted in such cases, take the bus of passengers, and bus send on without disrupting the schedule. \u0026quot;As a transportation company, we sell tickets on the basis of passport and a Schengen visa. We can not know whether this passenger once the breach \u0026quot;, - said Vasily Galuska, manager of the Lvov-Intourtrans\u0026quot; in Belgium. According to him, especially hard for bus passengers who were detained at the border in the winter: \u0026quot;We can not warm up the bus cabin, as the work of the engine is out of exhaust - and the border guards prohibit doing so. So many hours of standby people sit in the cold bus hires. 

Problems arise when returning buses from Western Europe: it is about the passengers who returned from abroad to Ukraine, or have expired visas, or certificates issued by the Ukrainian Embassy, instead of lost passports. If the problem with the first clear, then the second suspect in the deliberate loss of passports, which are the same expired visa. Border guards, finding such passengers, fined them and made their names in the \u0026quot;black lists\u0026quot; of those who enter the Schengen zone will be for many years prohibited. But why at this bus company threatened to cancel the permit for transportation? As a result, Lviv-Intourtrans was forced to abandon the passengers whose documents had all the chances to draw particular attention to border guards. Of course, this decision caused the company damages. According to Popovich, the paradox is that if the \u0026quot;expired\u0026quot; Ukrainians are coming home aviaputem, they are removed from the flight but the plane because they do not delay, and the airline does not receive any trouble.

Where not only turned Lviv-Intourtrans \u0026quot;with their problems! By the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the EU Roman Spek, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Ponomarenko, Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko, Minister of Transport Valery Pustovoitenko. Responded after - Speck raised the issue of Ukrainian bus company at a meeting with EU representatives, and Ponomarenko, responded that the complaint stated \u0026quot;Lviv-Intourtrans\u0026quot; the German border control, but the company is better to apply to the Minister of Transport of Ukraine. As the manager Basil Galuska, from the German side has not yet been any response. In general, the situation is clearly contrary to the statements of support for the European aspirations of Ukraine, Ukrainian diplomats celebrate privately.