1 Amendments of Stavros LAMBRINIDIS related to 2008/2199(INI)
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the recent extension of the visa waiver programme to another six EU Member States; however calls once again on the US to lift the visa regime for the remaining six Member States and to treat all EU-citizens equally and on the basis of full reciprocity; asks the Commission to treat this as a priority matter with the new US administration; , not only as regards the granting or denial of visa-free status per se but also as regards the terms and conditions on which such status is granted to, or withheld from, different Member States by the US; asks the Commission to treat this as a priority matter with the new US administration; is concerned that the new Electronic System for Travel Authorization imposed by the US may amount to a new visa process on a traveller-by-traveller basis, thus negating most of the benefits of the visa waiver programme;