TIT-FOR-TAT is never a happy way for friends to sort out their differences. By the time one side has blinked first, both parties tend to find themselves in a worse position than when they started.
Next week the EU is meeting to discuss whether it should start requiring Americans and Canadians to apply for visas before they venture across the pond. The goal is to pressure America into adding more EU member states onto its own list of countries that are able to enjoy visa-free travel. While most EU countries are exempt from the need to apply for a visa, five mostly East European nations—Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia and Cyprus—require permission to travel to the United States. (The first two are also not allowed visa-free travel to Canada.) “Our goal remains full and reciprocal visa waiver with our strategic partners,” says Mina Andreeva, a spokeswoman for the European Commission.
With the EU in the throes of a migrant crisis, and having been subjected to several high-profile terrorist atrocities, Americans are nervous about further opening their borders to their European cousins. But EU law commits its members to put up a...Continue reading
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