Posted on 03/03/2017 7:41:52 AM PST by freedumb2003
Not posting since I am unsure if we can excerpt Time.
The upshot is the EU has found that the US is in violation of Visa reciprocity from Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Cyprus, and Poland and wants to force US citizens to get Visas to go there.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Took a multi-country vacation in 1990 and enjoyed it although Paris was a bit snooty. Since then I’ve only briefly visited, taking quick cruise line tours. From what I’ve seen my desire for an extended land stay is diminished. Conversely, I’ve been considering a U.K. trip when funds permit as a way of showing support for Brexit.
Leave the good old USA to visit Europe? Not in this lifetime. Heck, this USA is one big country, and a person will never run out of swell places to visit, not even in ten lifetimes.
I’m fine with any country - including our own - requiring visas for anyone they let into their, repeat, THEIR country. It’s their country. Let them run it how they see fit. If I want to go there and they require a visa then I’ll get a visa.
I think you should read the article a little more closely.
Trump is our American President, not a world leader!
They’d havevto make me want to go back first.
Hope they hold their breath while they wait.
May as well require a visa for Disney. It's a foreign world there.
Interesting that they are saying the problem is with four eastern European countries and Cyprus. Eastern Europe is the sphere of non-cooperation with the horde migrations. Screw Western Europe, why would I want to go there now?
So I have to get a visa. So what.
I don’t think our soldiers needed a passport in 44 at Normandy or for Sicily in 43, or Belgium in 44 or Germany in 45 for that matter.
I did enjoy my visits to Romania and Bulgaria.
Disney in now on my no-go list.
We used to go to Mexico twice a year. Haven’t been once since they decided we need a passport. We go to Hawaii instead. Yeah, I guess we’re lazy.
“I’ve heard Slovenia, is a nice place to go, as well.”
It produced the First Lady.
Did those recent troop deployments to Europe all get visas? No? Oh dear, better bring ‘em all back home PDQ.
I doubt we have a choice. The law that created the Visa Wavier Program is based on reciprocity.
Absolutely correct.
Same here. My great grand parents came here to get away from Europe.
At the rate those and other countries are admitting refugees, soon we’ll need to apply the same “extreme” vetting process to all countries, not just the 7 currently on the list.
I say fine, if EU stompy-feet want to kill tourism then by all means, kill it.
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