🇫🇮 Finland calls on the EU to completely stop issuing tourist visas to Russians Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo plans to put forward the proposal at next week's European Council meeting. According to Orpo, European countries issued 800,000 tourist visas to Russians last year, while Finland issued none. Orpo justified his proposal by citing the threat of Russian sabotage operations across Europe. “If we fear that Russia is trying to carry out acts of sabotage in Europe, why on earth are we so naive as to let them in as tourists and allow them to move around freely?” the Finnish prime minister asked. Finland stopped issuing tourist visas to Russians back in 2022 and has kept its land border with Russia closed since December 2023. Now Helsinki wants to extend these visa restrictions across the entire European Union.