France seems to have recognized the Russian threat from the large -scale invasion of Ukraine of Moscow in February 2022. To safeguard against the risks of interference and the espionage in the French soil, Paris has rejected the Consa and the 2022, I monde Has learned. This “consular surveillance”, as described by a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is the result of a “expanded security consultation procedure within the Schengen area.”
The objective is also to prevent Moscow from reconstructing a title intelligence network by the expulsion of Russian agents operating under diplomatic coverage. In the first half of 2022, France expelled 55 officials, especially after the Bucha massacre and the expulsion of the Russian delegation of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. At the beginning of the 1980s, the former KGB had replaced 47 Soviet representatives expelled in 1983 for espionage in two years.
Each application for a Schengen visa, which allows traveling within 25 European union nations, has been reviewed by all these countries, you can also make thinking requests to access a single territory. Of the 1,200 rejected applications, 350 were specifically for France, according to a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Each country maintains total sovereignty by deciding whether to issue these documents.
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