Poland looks for EU support over attempts to abolish visa requirements

Although all of these countries are not willing to waive visa requirements, Polish officials object to what they see as unfair one-way concessions, whereby citizens of those countries have no problems with coming to Poland. According to sources, the European Commission, is ready to agree on imposing visas on Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders who want to come to Poland. The EC is also considering a possibility of introducing border payments for U.S. citizens, but without the need to establish visa requirements. Another option which is being taken into account is the use of the so-called solidarity clause, which states that all EU member countries can stand up for one country which is being denied the right to travel without visas. This would mean that the EU would threaten imposing visa requirements on U.S. citizens. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) A.K.