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Media: Portugal against EU-wide visa ban on Russian tourists

by The Kyiv Independent news desk August 20, 2022 1:50 PM 1 min read
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Local online economic newspaper ECO reported on Aug. 19, citing an answer it received from the Portuguese Foreign Ministry, that Portugal opposes such a ban because it believes that "the main purpose of the sanctions regime should be to punish the Russian war machine, not the Russian people."

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