An Albanian girl displaying her biometric passport next to road signs showing European capitals in Tirana yesterday to hail the EU decision to extend visa-free travel rights to Albanians as a historic decision which marks a step towards a European future. EU interior ministers unanimously gave the green light to allow Albanian and Bosnian citizens with biometric passports to travel to 25 European nations without a visa and to stay up to three months in the Schengen zone including Malta.

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