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The German embassy in Belgrade is only one of the diplomatic missions in the Serbian capital with visa applicants queuing up outside. But this line-up is almost permanent. Serbs need visas to travel to the Schengen countries. 00.25 Schengen groups almost all the EU states, plus non-EU Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. Tamara goes through this every time she goes to visit to her boyfriend. 00.38 Tamara STOJONOVIC, in English: You have to apply with a huge amount of papers and also because the EU doesn’t recognize Serbian health insurance, then you have to have an additional health insurance that it costs if you go for one month around 50 euro additional and again you have to pay for the visa which is 35 euro. 00:57 Language challenges make the process that much harder. 01.05 Miroljub DJUKIC, in Serbian: My daughter has sent me a written invitation for my granddaughter’s birthday party.” 01.10 The European Commission has proposed that the Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians be allowed to travel without a visa for the EU from this coming January. 01.22 Maja and Tamara, sisters, age 25 and 28, of a new Serbian generation, grasp any chance to travel and to study abroad. One has a political science degree and the other’s an economist. They have an aunt who is Italian, the sort of thing that can help with a visa; you need an invitation letter from someone in an EU member state when you apply. 01.45 Maja TRGOVČEVIĆ, Student, in English: I am lucky because I have always somebody …