EU to call again on Canada to drop visa requirements for Czechs, Romanians
and Bulgarians
EU to call again on Canada to drop visa requirements for Czechs, Romanians
and Bulgarians
The European Union is again going to call on Canada to drop visa
requirements from visitors from the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria.
The bloc’s foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, said the issue would be
raised at a Canada-EU summit at the start of May.
Speaking in Brussels,
Baroness Ashton said it was not a matter of bilateral relations between
Canada and the three countries, but a matter of EU-Canada relations. She
said the EU’s aim was clear: visa-free travel to Canada for all its
citizens. Ottawa introduced a visa regime for Czechs in July 2009 after a
rise in the number of Czech Romany asylum seekers in Canada. It had already
imposed the same restriction on people from Romania and Bulgaria, which both
joined the European Union in 2007.
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EU to call again on Canada to drop visa requirements for Czechs, Romanians
and Bulgarians
The European Union is again going to call on Canada to drop visa
requirements from visitors from the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria.
The bloc’s foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, said the issue would be
raised at a Canada-EU summit at the start of May.
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