Demands “visa reciprocity” that Obama refused for five EU countries.
The lefties are pretending that this is a Trump issue. In reality, the EU has been after Obama about this for the last three years. Likely, Trump’s election gave the EU the push they needed to do something.
The Obama administration refused to grant visa-free travel to the U. S. from five EU countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland, and Romania. The EU Parliament has been protesting that decision since at least 2014 and had been putting pressure on the Obama administration to relent; however, no progress was made.
Now that President Trump is in office, however, the EU Parliament has decided that it’s time to step up the pressure on the Trump administration regarding the long-standing lack of “visa reciprocity” and to propose (threaten?) the end to visa-free travel to all EU countries for U. S. citizens.
In possible response to Trump, EU parliament calls to end visa-free travel for US citizens
In what has been called a “visa war,” the European Union’s parliament on Thursday called on the bloc to force American tourists visiting Europe to first obtain visas because the U.S. excludes five EU countries from its no-visa policy.