EU to introduce visas for American citizens?

"We will propose draft restrictions at the beginning of July," said Friso Roscam Abbing, spokesman of the European Commission for internal affairs. "This will take place if within a month the Americans do not present clear criteria for abolishing visas for all EU countries and a schedule for doing this," he stressed. According to information in Rzeczpospolita, if the USA and the EU do not reach agreement, visas would be re-introduced only for diplomats, as otherwise this could hinder the travel of EU citizens to America. "We want the Americans to make no exceptions," said Abbing commenting on the proposal of the American Senate to temporarily abolish visas for Poles. The chances of visas for all ten new EU countries being abolished before the November elections to the American Congress are almost non existent. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A7) M.M.